[occi-wg] Is OCCI the HTTP of Cloud Computing?

[Andre Merzky]

+1

Quoting [Edmonds, AndrewX] (May 06 2009):
> 
> I've a feeling that by choosing atom as our meta-model
> (analogous to base classes) that we may end up limiting
> the number of format that we can expose via the OCCI
> through this dependency. It is this choice that perhaps is
> the reason for the unclear path to a clean and efficient
> means of rendering, the OCCI model instance passed back
> through the OCCI, as text or JSON.
>
> To be honest it is kinda scary talk when conversions,
> translations etc of a schema are being talked of at this
> early stage, imho.
>
> Couldn't we just define a schema particular to our use
> cases and then see along with our requirements (e.g. easy
> rendering of models as text) if atom fits the bill? That
> schema could then be rendered as atom via transformation
> if required.
> 
> Andy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Richard Davies
> Sent: 06 May 2009 15:22
> To: Sam Johnston
> Cc: occi-wg at ogf.org
> Subject: Re: [occi-wg] Is OCCI the HTTP of Cloud Computing?
> 
> > > I don't believe this will make JSON or TXT either less flexible or more
> > > work for machines - to the contrary, I believe it's easier to parse if
> > > you don't have to have rules like 'always ignore ||| which is just there
> > > as legacy from the XML'.
> >
> > That may be fine if we don't mind the text version being lossy, which is
> > something else I was trying to avoid.
> 
> Don't think we need to make it lossy - just would need slightly smarter
> conversion tools when converting back to XML which know when they have to
> put in blank or standard XML fields which have been omitted for simplicity
> in other formats.
> 
> Richard.
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