[occi-wg] Is HTTP the HTTP of cloud computing?

[Andy Edmonds]

This approach of close-to-the-bone HTTP is exactly that which is being
followed in the current APIDesign wiki.
Roger - with respect to the model that I have placed on the wiki there is
not alot of work required to move it so it is compatible with what is listed
on the wiki :-) Yes, I'd also agree with you - we are now moving forward :-)
Gary - if the rendering content type supports implicit validation (e.g.
JSON) or explicit validation (e.g. XML+XSD or JSON+JSONSchema) then I think
we should certainly exploit this.

Andy
andy.edmonds.be


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 13:13, Gary Mazz <garymazzaferro at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is intriguing, it needs time for evaluation.
>
> Personally I like key value pairs... I'd like it better if the value was
> self documenting for validation purposes, I guess it will be ok if there
> is a DTD around.
>
> My concern is the pub end of the business. I definitely want to keep
> something like atompub. I don't want to replace a doc with a query.
>
> its 6am, I need some zzzs.
>
> -gary
>
> Richard Davies wrote:
> > I thought this idea was interesting, and it was a shame that no one else
> has
> > yet commented on it. It is certainly a very minimal rendering, and is
> also
> > one which could work.
> >
> >
> >> HTML also resolves another pressing issue - what format to use for
> >> submitting key-value pairs (which constitutes a large part of what we
> need
> >> to do with OCCI). It gives us two options:
> >>
> >
> > I certainly agree that simple flat key value pairs are sufficient to
> > represent everything that we need to do - the entire EH API uses nothing
> > else.
> >
> >
> >> * application/x-www-form-encoded which is simple but quickly gets
> >>   messy with encoding and non-ASCII characters
> >>
> >
> > There is also precedent for sending data in this format - for example
> > the Amazon EC2 Query API and also Google Checkout:
> >
> http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_HTML_API_Notification_API.html#HTML_Parameter_Definitions
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard.
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