[jsdl-wg] JSDL Issues

[Donal K. Fellows]

Steven Newhouse wrote:
>> An application that cannot handle spaces in the paths is
>> a fact of life and we need to be able to describe that unfortunately
>> circumstance.
> 
> But I'm not sure that this is the fault of JSDL. I can specify a file
> path in JSDL that does not exist - regardless of the 'correctness' of
> the application or not - that would seem to be my fault, not JSDLs.
> 
> A verification requirement in the BES would seem to be more
> appropriate. A local BES might know that BLAST on that platform can
> only have data files in /opt/data and that a file URL cannot have any
> spaces.
> 
> This might be something described in the Application Template
> specification or someplace else?
> 

Thank you, yes. I agree with the way you say this.

JSDL doesn't describe the application, but rather the request to execute
the application. JSDL does not care if the application is likely to
choke on the values provided; it doesn't syntax-check the arguments, as
it's just a document format.

Donal.