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Steve Lawrence updated DAFFODIL-2336:
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Issue Type: New Feature (was: Improvement)
> Allow control over BLOB identifier
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> Key: DAFFODIL-2336
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2336
> Project: Daffodil
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Back End
> Reporter: Steve Lawrence
> Priority: Minor
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> Currently the blob feature generates a temp file with a random name and an
> optional API-provided prefix/suffix that is common among all blobs generated
> during a parse. However, in some cases, it might be useful for the schema
> author to have some control over the name of this file.
> As an eample, a tar file is essentialy a container format that includes a
> file name and a blob. It might be useful for the blobs to be written to a
> file with the same name as defined by the tar. Thus, we could do something
> like this:
> {code:xml}
> <xs:element name="file" type="xs:anyURI" dfdlx:objectKind="bytes"
> dfdlx:objectIdentifier="{ ../filename }" />
> {code:xml}
> This dfdlx:objectIdentifier would be evaluated and used when creating the
> blob file.
> One could also image this useful if a container format contained mime
> information about a blob. One could then query this mime information and
> apply the appropriate extension for the blob. This way handlers of these
> blobs do not necessarily need to query the infoset and know where to look to
> determine basic information about the blob, but could instead use this
> identifer information.
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