Re: [search-ws] recordPacking: No Schema Change Required

["Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>]

No, recordFormat is not a good name, I just threw it out there for lack of a 
better suggestion at the time, my main point was to ask is it a good idea or 
not to make this a separate parameter.

But responseSchema isn't right.  This isn't at the response schema level, it 
is at the record schema level.  We already have a recordSchema parameter, 
this is sort of a "record sub-schema".    How about recordSubSchema for the 
parameter name?

--Ray



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
To: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>; "OASIS SWS TC" 
<search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 9:31 AM
Subject: RE: [search-ws] recordPacking: No Schema Change Required


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress [mailto:rden@loc.gov]
>
> recordPacking=looselyPacked&httpAccept=application/xyz
>
>...
>
> I'm not opposed to adding this functionality. I just think that it
stretches
> the semantics of the recordPacking parameter too far. How about if we
> introduce another parameter, call it 'recordFormatting'.

I'm not sure that recordFormat is the right name.  This is not about how
records appear, but about the complete response.  I suggest that we call
it 'responseSchema'.  Its semantic is that it names the content to be
returned.

A problem with the new responseSchema parm is that its potential values
are constrained by the media-type that it is associated with.  We're
going to have to add a media-types section to Explain (necessary anyway)
and within that, list the responseSchemas available.  There will be an
implicit default text/xml media-type with a default value of
searchRetrieveResponse associated with SRU Explain records.

<mediaTypeInfo>
    <mediaType value="application/json">
        <responseSchema name="unpacked"
identifier="http://nature.com/responseSchemas/unpacked";>
            <title>JSON with SRU record element data added</title>
            </responseSchema>
        </mediaType>
    </mediaTypeInfo>

I'm not going to be horrified to discover that we need to add
recordSchema as a sub-element of mediaType too.

Ralph



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