[MOBY-dev] problem with article names?

[Martin Senger]

Reading David's email about exception, I noticed an interesting point
which probably need some clarification (but it is noy about exceptions so
I have changed the subject):

> Anyway, I keep on guessing what happens with my articleNames if I gather 
> several Simples and build a Collection with them (in a workfow), or I 
> split a Collection into its Simples and send them to other service(s) 
> one by one (in a workflow), and how those articleNames relate to the 
> "elementID"?
> 
   Well, I do not know how they relate to elementID, but I wonder how we
can send output from a service to another service (in workflow) at all!
Because if services start to be behaving strictly according to the new API
and start to require article names, then we have a problem. Big problem I
would say.
   If we want to keep symmetry between input and output (and we want it
desperately otherwise it would not work in workflows engines) we probably
cannot insist on the mandatorness of the article name (of the top-level
Simple, or Collection, I am not talking about article names of object's
children). Am I right?
   I am either missing something (which is possible in the heat here), or
we need to talk again about how mandatory the article names should be.

   Martin

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