Hi Rob,
In theory, we can imagine kind of representations successively
available/unavailable which fits the javadoc comment of the "available"
attribute ("Indicates if some *fresh* content is available")
Therefore, I'm disposed to think that the "transient" attribute
indicates whether the availability can evolve in time or not.
(The InputRepresentation, ReadableRepresentation and
ReaderRepresentation classes illustrate the case of "read-only-once" (ie
transient) representations).
best regards,
Thierry Boileau
Thanks for the clarification, Thierry.
Does the general contract of "available" indicate that the
representation content will /never/ be available (e.g. it has already
been consumed) or does it ever indicate that it may be available at
some point in the future (e.g. when remaining data arrives)?
- Rob
> You can check the following attributes of a representation :
> - transient => the representation content can be obtained only once
> - available => is the representation content available or not?
