doj wrote: > Hi, > > first hello to Restlet team, i know some of you guys. > > My question is for you and everybody else implied in practicing REST and > remoting in general. > > A first provider catalogs information on a domain being a reference for > others; for instance, all information on the partners involved in your > business. > > The second provider handles data referencing partners, let's simply take the > parameters for the partners for a given business process. > > I'd like to implement full-text search for those parameters: find parameter > values based on either example parameters values or example partner labels. > > With tables in SQL world, I can "join" the tables and specify criterias on > both (perhaps it's not a good practice by the way). How do you handle this > with remoting and resource oriented services ? > For this kind of use case, "algorithmic join" of XML/other representations > retrieved on the fly can seem unnecesseraly complicated, so people often > replicate reference data, in order to typically to make this stuff with > "locally stored" index information. > > What do you think of a "on the fly" scenario by the way ? Or perhaps this > full-text multi-source search idea is not a good one ? > If resources expose RDF representations and SPARQL endpoints, one can perform SPARQL queries remotely , even embed different service providers within the same SPARQL query.
Not sure if the SERVICE syntax is a SPARQL standard, but IMHO is a close solution for what is being asked. (Example from http://jena.sourceforge.net/ARQ/service.html) PREFIX : <http://example/> PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> SELECT ?a FROM <mybooks.rdf> { ?b dc:title ?title . *SERVICE* <http://sparql.org/books> { ?s dc:title ?title . ?s dc:creator ?a } } Best regards, Nina Jeliazkova > thanks for your point of view. > > Dominique. > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2453272
