Hi Ray main clients are:
VODesktop which only uses XQuery and does provide an API for the rest of
the search methods such as keywordSearch but besides some unit testing,
I have not seen a client use these other search methods.
All other Astrogrid components uses another small registry client
library: Which I believe always uses getResource and I am certain if
one of them does a search/keywordSearch it does not use from&to parameters.
I don't see much of a problem if we change the namespace or not for our clients. If it is a small change then another VODesktop release is scheduled in early September so I suspect we could make the change if needed.
cheers,
Kevin
Ray Plante wrote:
> Kevin and Guy,
>
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, KevinBenson wrote:
>> Most of the astrogrid clients here tend to use GetResource but does
>> not pay attention to the ResolveResource element or its namespace.
>> And the VODesktop uses xquery. So at the moment I don't see a
>> problem.
>
> Can you tell me a bit more about what you mean by "tend". For
> example, imagine that we changed the KeywordSearch interface's
> parameter "to" to "max" in the official WSDL without changing its
> target namespace; suppose also that you updated your servers to comply...
>
> 1. Do you think any of your user's use a client other than your
> desktop?
>
> 2. Would any desktop functionality break (even if it is rarely used)?
>
> 3. If the change requires an update of the desktop, how tramatic would
> it be for the users that do not update?
>
> If the answers are "no", "no", and "not very", then I might suggest we
> change the WSDL without changing the WSDL namespace. (I have some
> thoughts as to how to handle provide backward compatibility.)
>
> cheers,
> Ray
>
Received on 2008-07-11Z18:04:50