Fw: [wsrp-comment] There is no way in the spec to retrieve registrationproperties

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

We had talked briefly about this in
the v1 timeframe. Between the security issues and the need for the Consumer
to remember the properties in many cases anyway, we decided it was reasonable
to always place the burden of remembering them on the Consumer and therefore
did not define means for them to retrieved from the Producer.

Rich 
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Nathan E Lipke <nlipke@bea.com>

09/12/2007 01:18 PM

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Subject	[wsrp-comment] There is no way in the spec to retrieve registration properties

    We have a couple of use-cases which
require the current value of a 
consumer's registration properties to be fetched by the consumer. This
is not currently possible in the WSRP 2.0 spec.

   1. During modifyRegistration present the user with a dialog box
with
      registration properties in it.
         1. We would like to display the current property
values, so the
            user can only change what's needed.
   2. We would like to be able to move a registration from one producer
      to another (e.g. staging to production)


We have thought of 2 ways to achieve this:

    * Add registrationProperties to the ServiceDescription type
          o Possibly add a boolean to getServiceDescription
to determine
            when it is wanted
    * Add a new method to the Registration Interface to mirror
the
      methods in the Portlet Management Interface
          o PropertyList getRegistrationProperties(registrationContext,
            UserContext, names)
          o Note: getRegistrationPropertyDescription(...)
would not be
            needed as this information is
available in the service
            description.

Thanks,

Nate

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