On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> During a discussion today, we (Sanjiva, Asanka, Srinath & I) thought that
>> it will be a good idea to use XPath-like syntax for selecting how to
>> subscribe to Registry resource paths. We could support only some simple
>> scenarios, and not the entire XPath syntax. Let me explain with an example.
>>
>> The RegistrySynchronizer needs to be notified when deployable artifacts
>> are changed in the Registry. Let's say these artifacts are stored in
>> the _system/config/deployment/*server/* path. Shown below is how the
>> HelloService.aar is stored.
>>
>> /_system/config/deployment/*
>> server/service-groups/foo/bar/HelloService.aar*
>>
>> These are the different way in which we can subscribe to different parts
>> of this hierarchy.
>>
>> 1. /_system/config/deployment/server
>> Selects *server* resource only [1]
>>
>> 2. /_system/config/deployment/server/descendant::*
>> Selects descendants of *server* only, does not select *server. *Selected
>> elements wil be server, service-groups, foo, bar, and HelloService.aar [1]
>>
>> 3. /_system/config/deployment/server/descendant-or-self::*
>> Selects *server* and descendants. Selected elements wil be server,
>> service-groups, foo, bar, and HelloService.aar [1]
>>
>> So, this standard syntax allows us to simply select a node and its
>> descendants in different ways.
>>
>
> Sounds like a good plan. So if a new resource is added under server, will a
> subscriber who subscribed using 2 get notified?
>

Yes


>
> Thanks,
> Hiranya
>
>
>>
>> Thoughts welcome.
>>
>>
>> [1] XPath reference: http://zvon.org/comp/r/tut-XPath_1.html
>>
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