Sorry for the late reply ... was on the daily support call.

So why do we need XPath here?. I thought the requirement was to have a
"Subscribe" button next to each resource that allows users to subscribe to
that particular resource. We can have a "Include descendents" check box to
include everything underneath. Subscribing to corresponding Event topic
should be done behind the scene.

Thanks,
Danushka

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