[oslc-core] Suggested terminology change in core: Selective Property Values

[Dave]

I tried to avoid the term "partial resource" because there is no such
thing. When you get a resource, you get the full thing. When you add
the selective properties stuff to a resource URL you get another
resource (different URL means different resource) that is related to
the first, but that has subset of its properties.

I think this sentence could be improved:

"OSLC services MAY support a technique called Selective Properties to
enable clients to retrieve only selected property values."

What if we said instead: "retrieve only the values of selected properties"?

Would that help?

Thanks,
- Dave



On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Steve K Speicher <sspeiche at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> See
> http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OSLCCoreSpecDRAFT#Selective_Property_Values
>
> I wonder if it would be better to refer to this as "Partial Resources".
> Using "Selective" and "Values" gives the impression that you can filter
> which properties are fetched based on their values.
> The description after the title refers to it as "Selective Properties".
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Speicher | IBM Rational Software | (919) 254-0645
>
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