[oslc-core] Question on UI Preview - data refresh

[Ian Green1]

Hi Scott,

How about something to the effect - 

"the compact rendering SHOULD NOT be used to refresh the locally stored 
information about a remote resource"

best wishes,
    -ian

ian.green at uk.ibm.com (Ian Green1/UK/IBM at IBMGB)
Chief Software Architect, Requirements Definition and Management
IBM Rational

oslc-core-bounces at open-services.net wrote on 17/05/2010 14:17:51:

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> Re: [oslc-core] Question on UI Preview - data refresh
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> Scott Bosworth 
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> 17/05/2010 14:18
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> Hi Ian. The excerpt you quote is out of the section that is giving 
> guidance to the consumer on how they should use the Compact 
> representation information to form the hyperlink (and potentially a 
> hover) to be displayed to the end user. The section suggests that 
> rather than forming the hyperlink text from local data, the consumer
> can use the dc:title, dc:name, or oslc:icon values from the Compact 
> representation, which are presumed to have "better" information 
> about the referenced resource. The excerpted text talks about using 
> these properties "to improve and replace the default link display" 
> and does not reference anything about updating a persisted 
> representation of the resource.
> 
> Is there a wording choice that is throwing you off here? Suggestions
> as to how to improve that wording?
> 
> Thanks...Scott
> 
> 
> Scott Bosworth | IBM Rational CTO Team | bosworth at us.ibm.com | 919.
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> oslc-core-bounces at open-services.net wrote on 05/17/2010 08:53:42 AM:
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> > [oslc-core] Question on UI Preview - data refresh
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> > Ian Green1 
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> > 05/17/2010 08:53 AM
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> > I've raised an issue on the UP Preview spec. at [1].
> > 
> > My concern is over this excerpt:
> > 
> > If this becomes known to the Consumer, the Consumer SHOULD assume that 

> > this information is better and use it to improve and replace the 
default 
> > link display.
> > 
> > If the "improvement" to the link display is interpreted by a consumer 
> > implementer as "update the persisted representation of the provider's 
> > resource" then data may leak outside of the provider's security model. 

> > Have I misinterpreted the specification? 
> > 
> > My thinking is that the responsibilities of the UI Preview 
specification 
> > should be limited to UI Preview, and not to "refresh" of persisted 
data.
> > 
> > best wishes,
> >     -ian
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> > ian.green at uk.ibm.com (Ian Green1/UK/IBM at IBMGB)
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> > IBM Rational
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