[occi-wg] Another proposal on Linking

[Edmonds, AndrewX]

Nice work Ralf! I like this, is KIS and covers the need for specialized/extended Link types. The only real difference with this and the previous is that the lifecycle of the link is managed by the source Resource and as such makes the association a composition. As it is a composite association there is no need to explicitly interact with the link via HTTP verbs but rather indirectly via its owning source Resource.

To your question "Is it an interface or is it a representation model?" - It's both. The interface is the means by which we manipulate the model.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Nyren
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 7:09 PM
To: occi-wg at ogf.org
Subject: [occi-wg] Another proposal on Linking

While analyzing the new Link & Linking proposal I went back to where we  
started and tried to see what benefits the proposal would have. Except for  
link attributes through link specialisation I failed to see any real  
benefits. I mean it is indeed tempting to say that a Link is a REST  
resource and therefore we can apply CRUD (POST/GET/PUT/DELETE) operations  
directly on links. But why would we want to do that? A link is not very  
useful on its own and what is it we cannot do with the simpler approach?

Based on this reasoning I wrote up "another proposal" and added to the  
Link & Linking wiki page [1]. It is indeed very simple (but I like  
simple!) and I believe it can do all things we realistically would want to  
do with the Fat Link approach.

I am very much looking forward to your comments.

regards, Ralf

[1] http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Link
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