Re: getRegistry question

From: KevinBenson <kmb-at-mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:45:27 +0100


I sent this earlier e-mail to the reg-dm list earlier when it was meant for the registry list.

KevinBenson wrote:
> Have one question.
> 1.) Do you think we need a getRegistry method to the RI? Currently
> we do "not" have a getRegistry interface method. It would be quite
> simple, it would have no parameters just simply return the main
> registry type for "that" registry. If my memory is correct I think we
> might have had it a very long time ago to the RI, but for some reason
> we dropped it. The use would be for clients to determine if XQuery is
> supported or extendedSearches can be done. I guess optionally they
> can sort of get this information from the RofR (not sure how the
> client would determine which registry is nearby). This seems like
> quite an easy interface method to add and could be quite useful.
>
> cheers,
> Kevin
>
Received on 2006-05-25Z14:45:53