Ok, to further confuse the situation, I decided to write down the "thin link" proposal [1] we have been discussing as one alternative during the last telco. Wearing my fire-proof pants... -Alexander [1] http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Link Am 17.08.2010 um 01:04 schrieb Edmonds, AndrewX:
Nice work Ralf! I like this, is KIS and covers the need for specialized/extended Link types. The only real difference with this and the previous is that the lifecycle of the link is managed by the source Resource and as such makes the association a composition. As it is a composite association there is no need to explicitly interact with the link via HTTP verbs but rather indirectly via its owning source Resource.
To your question "Is it an interface or is it a representation model?" - It's both. The interface is the means by which we manipulate the model.
Andy
-----Original Message----- From: occi-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:occi-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Nyren Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 7:09 PM To: occi-wg@ogf.org Subject: [occi-wg] Another proposal on Linking
While analyzing the new Link & Linking proposal I went back to where we started and tried to see what benefits the proposal would have. Except for link attributes through link specialisation I failed to see any real benefits. I mean it is indeed tempting to say that a Link is a REST resource and therefore we can apply CRUD (POST/GET/PUT/DELETE) operations directly on links. But why would we want to do that? A link is not very useful on its own and what is it we cannot do with the simpler approach?
Based on this reasoning I wrote up "another proposal" and added to the Link & Linking wiki page [1]. It is indeed very simple (but I like simple!) and I believe it can do all things we realistically would want to do with the Fat Link approach.
I am very much looking forward to your comments.
regards, Ralf
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