[wsrp-wsia] [I#100] Tentative Resolution: Entity propertyrepresentation, ser ialization, and extensibility

Status: 
Tentative Resolve

Topic: 
customization

Class: 
Technical

Raised by: 
Ravi Konuru

Resolution 
date: 21-Nov-2002

Date Added: 
23-Sep-2002

Document 
Section: Interfaces/7

Description:

There has 
been a lot of discussion on simplifying the representation of the
property 
values in the interface: a property list, an array, a set of
property 
elements with values as attributes.

 

One option 
is to use <array> wrapper around property lists rather 
than
<propertylist> for compatibility, but this requires elements of 
same type.
This seems limiting for extensibility?

 

Another 
problem (short term, the sub-group thinks) is that the Axis
implementation 
default serializer doesn't deal well with attributes: must
use subelements. 
Do we need to consider this in our specification?

 

For the 
getProperties call, it is sufficient at this time to just have an
array of 
strings that represent property names and is probably the most
efficient. 
From an extensibility perspective, it may better to atleast have
an array of 
properties in the signature.

 

Resolution: 
Proposed property description and get/set operations are included in the 
0.8 draft

 

Gil Tayar

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