Re: MType Spectra vocabulary

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:13:21 +0100

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:
> For this to work, we'd need a concept in SAMP that an app
> subscribing to
> table.load.votable would be willing to read a table.load message as
> well, i.e.
> is the MType a direct string match, do we allow wildcards like
> table.load.*,
> or is there an implicit subscription to higher-level messages like
> table.load
> if we explicitly post table.load.votable as an Mtype?

Totally disagree... ;)

If an application wants to subscribe to a table.load.votable and then arrange a bunch of flows on receipt of this message that's fine with me, I think defining an action that an application must take to go with a specific message is the wrong way to go. What happens at the application end on receipt of a specific message is, as far as I'm concerned, up to the application.

Specifying that something that's decided to accept a table.load.votable has to accept a table.load is a an anathema to this concept. If the sender wanted the app to do something (arrange a bunch of flowers) it should have sent it a message it was willing to accept.

Al. Received on 2008-05-09Z10:13:42