It is stable - in as much as we are planning on moving most of the arc tools outside, at which point there will most probably be alternative data sources that will supersede this text file. There is no reason to change the file location or structure, though I could see a customer-driven (i.e., you) request to change the format from csv to xml at some time.
In that sense, the location and format are Committed, but due to the fragility of the os.o web app, its update frequency and level of "being current", while intended to be daily, should be considered to be Volatile. In addition, there /will/ be a major release of the arc tools at some point, though we/I will attempt to make the transition as easy as possible. -John Richard Lowe wrote: > John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> writes: > >> I just created a yahoo pipe based on the caseinfo.csv.txt data source >> that you can play with to see if it meets your needs. Consider it >> to be experimental, but potentially a mechanism we could use to make >> it much easier to access and consume this type of info... > > I haven't looked in detail, but unless there are considerable and > numerous advantages to using the above as compared to the raw csv + > cgi we have now, I'd far rather have some kind of indication that the > current scheme is stable (in the interface sense, mostly) than switch > to something else. > > -- Rich
