[glue-wg] StorageSharePath multiplicity requested by Atlas

[Alessandro Paolini]

shall we name the new attribute "AdditionalPaths"?

so by default it will be used the attribute "Path" and the other paths can
be published in "AdditionalPaths"

On 7 June 2018 at 12:01, Stephen Burke - UKRI STFC <stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk
> wrote:

> glue-wg <glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org> On Behalf Of Paul Millar said:
> > I have a slight preference for "Paths" over "OtherPaths", since
> > OtherPaths suggests the value of Path is somehow canonical or preferred,
> > which (I believe) isn't the intention.
>
> It's preferred in the sense of being a default, use that path if you don't
> have a reason to do something else. That's how lcg-utils always worked, if
> you just specified a file name rather than a full path the code would write
> it to the default path. If there's only one default that's unambiguous, if
> you have several it's not clear what the semantics should be and anyway
> it's a change. Lcg-utils is now deprecated in favour of gfal and that
> doesn't use the information system, it just leaves it to the user, but that
> still gives the user the same question of how they construct a path if they
> don't have other knowledge.
>
> Stephen
>
>


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