[MOBY-dev] Conceptual doubt about datatypes representationinresquests/responses

[Iván Párraga García]

Hi,

I prefer your approach Martin, although I saw some examples that made me
think that the behavior stated by Paul was the expected one.

Sincerely, I don't see the need to send no necessary data. At the end,
an empty XML tag or a non-existent one will produce a "null" value, when
trying to retrieve it, won't it? Furthermore, I have some of my services
in mind with "HAS" relations and a big amount of instances related to a
container and these instances have only relevant values for half of the
attributes. This situation produces a big amount of unnecessary data
transfer over the net...

If I could vote, no doubt I would agree with Martin (I don't see exactly
what is the advantage of the other approach).

Cheers,

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Martin Senger escribió:
>> Ok, that is what I thought. Then I'd like to suggest a little
>> improvement in the Java MoSeS generated services: if an article name is
>> not explicitly setted, it would be nice to obtain the datatype like it
>> has to be; currently if you omit to set an attribute there is no XML tag
>> for it in the response.
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> That's because I have a different view that Paul expressed :-) When I was
> doing my research of the moby API documentation I concluded that no data
> means no data. Why should I send them at all? What are the pros and cons?
>
> Martin
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