Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
The mycsv example above was a typical use case for how the servlet
service generator is intended to be used. It replaces the virtual
sitemap components that we had an experimental implementation of before.
If we were talking about a virtual generator, I'd agree with you. But, after
introducing the concept of "sitemap services" which are, from a users
perspective like a web service, they become the source in my opinion.
And in the example above I would say that the "{1}.csv" input file is
from the users POV the important thing. That the transformation from the
csv input file to the wanted XML format is done with a servlet service
that happen to be at some particular URI instead of using some custom
csv generator, that is an implementation detail.
And here we disagree ;-)
The CSV file is important for the called service but for the calling pipeline,
it is just some data that is passed. The servlet service generator parses the
output stream returned by the called servlet and not the CVS file.
- o -
I think that continuing this discussion doesn't solve the problem. Maybe we
should start a poll on dev@, how others (except from Jörg, Alex, Grek, Vadim you
and me) think about it because I guess that most of them probably don't follow
this long thread anymore.
WDYT?
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