RE: [wsrp][wsia][wsrp-wsia joint interfaces][Draft Spec 0.43]Persistent Information Scope

In the interest 
of sanity and progress, I have broken up Rich's, Michael's, Monica's and Eilon's 
emails into four subjects - "Shared Transient Information", "Persistent 
Information Scope", "createEntity/createTemplate/createPortlet", "session and 
entity handles", and "Property lists".

 

This email will deal 
with Persisent Information 
Scope, and the relevant quotes from the emails and my reply to 
them:

 

Michael wrote:

> 2) I think the specification should recognize the per consumer 
scope. I

> understand a producer will be able to 
manage this scope transparently once we

> add a registration handle but I don't think 
that just because it can be

> inferred from the model we should ignore it 
(from the spec/description).

> 3) The definition of the "persistent 
information" type needs to be tightened.

> As written it implies a relationship with 
User transient information as both

> are claimed to be scoped to a user. Whereas 
a session is scoped one-to-one to

> a user I don't believe persistent 
information is scoped one-to-one to a user.

> Rather I believe we have discussed 
situations where the mapping is 1 to N.

> I.e. the producer may be asked to operate 
on the sample persistent entity for

> differing concurrent user (sessions). This 
seems to imply that the scope of

> "persistent information" is whatever 
the consumer chooses it to be.

 

So now Gil writes:

I definitely agree on point #3. What I said was actually 
one Usage of the persistent information (i.e. one use is to tie it to 
the user), but yours is actually the more general - "the scope of 'persistent information' is whatever the 
Consumer chooses it to be."

Objections, anybody? 
If not, I will change the draft spec 
appropriately.

 

I am unclear about 
Point #2 above. When you're saying the specification should recognize the "per 
Consumer scope", you are talking about the scope on what type of information 
(user transient, shared transient, or persistent)? If it doesn't correlate to 
any type of information and is more of a general comment, then can you 
please elaborate? (e.g. an example, a proposed change to the 
spec)