[MOBY-dev] ServiceProvider URL and Logo
Andreas Groscurth
groscurt at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Mon Jul 30 14:38:49 UTC 2007
Hi,
I would like to address an issue we had discussed a little at the meeting in
Vancouver, namely to enable the possibility for service providers to add
their url (to their homepage) and a logo.
This was based on the suggestions from the Tigr workshop, where the people
wanted to have that, so if one is aggregating their service, is possible to
link to the origin of the service.
Actually there are two ways to do so (in my opinion):
1. Add the url to the homepage and the url to a logo into the service notes
for each service result
2. Give the opportunity to enter this information while registering a service
In case of 1. there are no changes needed in the API (neither perl nor java),
if somewant wants to use this information they have to parse it from the
service notes.
in case of 2. the api has to change (and also all registration clients and
probably the database....) to have methods to access these information and
to enter or store them in the service objects (or however this is done with
perl services)
Intuitively - from a developer - I would suggest 2. because it sounds much
more clearer to access and to store this information. Putting it into the
service notes sounds more like a workaround ('ah... everything else is put
there') - are there any other information in there ? how it is represented
there ? and so on.. but I think I can see that point 1 is easier and sooner
to use....
But I'm open for discussion. I can live with all ways :-)
Best
Andreas
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