Hi Larry,

That looks like a bug on line 101. I think few people have used JSON so 
that's probably why nobody has found it before.

I think you're right that a new attribute should be supported, and 
durationEvent sounds good to me.

David

LarryK wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I've been working my way through implementation of my production
> Timeline app, I was quite puzzled by the definition the isDuration
> event attribute. As you can see from the test example,
> http://simile-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/timeline/trunk/src/webapp/examples/test_example/test.html
>
> if isDuration is true, then a "instance" icon is shown. If isDuration
> is false or missing, then only the event's tape is shown. Further
> digging has revealed that isDuration for json is the opposite of
> isDuration for XML and SPARQL data formats!
>
> {{{
> // See 
> http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/source/browse/timeline/tags/2.2.0/src/webapp/api/scripts/sources.js
>
> // line 48, loadXML format:
>                      instant: node.getAttribute("isDuration") !=
> "true",
>
> // line 101 loadJSON format:
>                      instant: event.isDuration || false,
>
> // line 188 loadSPARQL format:
>                      instant: bindings["isDuration"] != "true",
> }}}
>
> I checked the repository and it has been like this for over a year.
> Of course, it would not be a good idea to change JSON's isDuration
> definition now since that would break existing implementations. But
> the current situation is pretty wrong from the documentation and "it
> just doesn't seem to make sense" points of view.
>
> My plan:
> * add a new event attribute of "durationEvent" which will be defined
> the same as XML's "isDuration" attribute.
> * Still support durationEvent exactly the same as it is now. Add
> comments to the source so future maintainers won't remove it.
>
> I've filled issue 33.
>
> ==>> Comments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
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