[MOBY-dev] data by reference - a request for comments

[Andreas Groscurth]

Martin Senger wrote:
> If you do not understand, it is my fault - I have tried to explain it, but
> obviously  have not done it well.
>   
hehe not automatically - i might just missed something ;-)

Thanks for the explanation, now i know i did understand it correctly ;-)

Andreas

> The discussion is now, however, a bit farer.Your first question is probably
> obsolete - the forming RFC seems to be that the references will be able to
> be anywhere (or not only on primitives).
>
> Your second question: We need to allow reference on primitives if we want to
> reuse existing references on not-yet-moby objects (such as uniprot
> sequences).
>
> The same with URLs of existing images - as in your use case. What you are
> describing is exactly what we are going to do. You will have a choice: a)
> You store somewhere an XML moby message (its part) and send a reference to
> it, or b) you store somewhere only the image (not wrapped in a moby message)
> and you send a moby message with a reference attached to a primitive.
>
> Martin
>
>   


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