Re: [Vrs-development] GDEE Message Buffer Implementation (Was Re: where are we at?)

[Eric Altendorf]

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 09:43, Chris Smith wrote:
> Note that passing the ContentType to getChunk is just for
> validation purposes, it is an optional value -> see the C
> implementation.  This might be a really stupid idea, but allows
> data for a particular 'ID' to be encoded in several formats, which
> will probably be required somewhere!

OK...my only issue with the message implementation you've proposed is 
this deal with occurrances...  The first thing that struck me was the 
slightly nonintuitive aspect to it -- what happens when you ask for a 
chunk by ID which has multiple occurrances biut don't specify the 
occurrance?

Well, that's not a big deal.  More generally, though ... It seems to 
me that since you can send multiple messages, each message can have 
multiple chunks, and if you're using a structured data payload (eg 
XML) you can have multiple portions of data within a single chunk ... 
that it is a bit of overkill (and overly complex) to add the concept 
of reoccurring chunks.

But you probably had some particular issue in mind, for which this 
would be the best solution.  Share that and I might change my mind. 
:-)

eric

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