Hello Steve,
thanks for putting me straight - i misread the intent in the examples of
the use of rdf:resource.
best wishes,
-ian
[email protected] (Ian Green1/UK/IBM@IBMGB)
Chief Software Architect, Requirements Definition and Management
IBM Rational
From:
Steve K Speicher <[email protected]>
To:
Ian Green1/UK/IBM@IBMGB
Cc:
[email protected], Andrew J Berner <[email protected]>,
[email protected], Chris Mcgraw/UK/IBM@IBMGB, community
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Date:
10/07/2009 14:35
Subject:
Re: [Community] OSLC RM - meetings during July
[email protected] wrote on 07/09/2009 02:34:49 PM:
> An alternative is to separate the requirement representation from
> the resources to which it is related, as the CM specification does. (See
> http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmRestApiV1?
> sortcol=table;up=#Managing_multi_valued_properties.) So the
> requirement could indicate the presence of a group of links
> (collected by type?).
>
> In the CM approach links are not first-class in the resource model -
> i can't GET a link, nor can I DELETE one: they are not resources.
>
Ian,
In CM, these links are resources and can be deleted. They are just quite
light weight, the are resources that only have properties such as a label
and a URL to the resource they represent. We didn't expand on the
construct as it followed typical REST semantics. We introduced the
collref attribute to identify URL that represent a collection of
resources, so consumers will know that collection semantics apply: knowing
that GET'ing the URL from collref will result in a feed/collection of
resources. Then those resources can be GET, PUT, DELETE, etc.
Thanks,
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