We have come across at least one requirement (marked as MAY), where it is unclear how an OSLC service consumer client can determine whether an OSLC service provider server supports the requirement or not. Also, it wasn't clear what the service response would be if a server did not support the requirement.
Here's the one we ran into: http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcCoreSpecification?sortcol=table;up=#Selective_Property_Values . There may be others. The section starts of by saying: OSLC Services MAY support a technique called Selective Properties to enable clients to retrieve only selected property values. It is unclear how a client may determine that a an OSLC service provider supports the oslc.properties and oslc.prefix parameters are supported. Also, is there a specific response that the clients should expect from the server when they are not supported... is there any way to differentiate that response from responses returned in other error scenarios? Regards, ____________________________________________ Samit Mehta mailto:[email protected] IBM Rational Software - Business Development
