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

[Alexis Richardson]

+1

Personally I favour JSON initially, which we (RabbitMQ) have had no
problem with in an enterprise context whatsoever.





On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net> wrote:
> +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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