J Aaron Farr wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 21:30, Stephen McConnell wrote:
I'm not keen on shfting this outside of the @avalon namspace because its not different to a @avalon.dependency or @avalon.context - they all relate to lifecycle fulfilment.
Is the issue with @avalon namespace that it should be reserved for only those tags/features which every container supports? ie- Phoenix doesn't have lifecycle extensions yet therefore @avalon.stage should be @lifecycle.stage (or whatever)? Or is it because lifecycle extensions are part of excalibur and not framework?
Just trying to understand what and why we want to reserve the @avalon namespace for. I suppose this is more a question for Berin.
Attributes are present in the meta-info model at the level of component, context, dependency, extension, service export, service definition, and stage. Under the @avalon scheme the only attribute handlined relates to component (via assignment of attributes under the <info> block using the @avalon.attribute tag. All of the other constructs are basically ignored. A solution to this that was suggested by Leo it to allow these tags to contain any attributes, and if the attribute is not "type" or "version", we assign the attribute name and value as an attribute of the respective meta-info element.
For example:
@avalon.dependency type="MyService" version="1.1" color="red"
would generate the following XML form:
<dependency type="MyService" version="1.1">
<attributes>
<attribute key="color" value="red"/>
</attributes>
</dependency>
Not sure how much I like this, but it works. Another alternative would be a set of tags like:
@avalon.dependency.attribute name="color" value="red"
But I'm not sure if I like that any better.
Problem here is *which*dependency?
@avalon.dependency key="primary" type="Aaaa" policy="PKCS12" @avalon.dependency key="secondary" type="Aaaa" policy="PKCS7"
The policy attribute has to be associated with a named (key) dependency. Using @avalon.dependency.attribute does not work unless you do something like @avalon.dependency.primary.attribute (i.e. @avalon.dependency.[key].attribute or something equivalent).
Steve.
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