[occi-wg] Resource & OS templates retrieving

[Ralf Nyren]

On Mon, 7 May 2012 11:00:43 +0000, "Feldhaus, Florian"
<florian.feldhaus at gwdg.de> wrote:

> If you interpret custom resource or OS templates as being derived from
the
> resource or OS template category, then you can interpret the
specification
> as follows:
> "If one or multiple Categories are provided in the request the server
MUST
> only return the complete rendering of the requested Kinds, Mixins or
Kinds
> and Mixins related to them."

The spec is indeed unclear on this but your interpretation above makes a
lot more sense to me at least.

Please note though that a Kind can only be related to other Kinds and a
Mixin to other Mixins.

> As we are currently in the process of revising the OCCI HTTP Rendering
> specification it would be a good idea to incorporate the above in it!

+1

regards, Ralf

> 
> Cheers,
> Florian
> 
> Am 07.05.2012 um 11:53 schrieb John Giannelos:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> My name is John Giannelos and I am currently working on an OCCI
>> implementation.
>> After reading the OCCI specifications, I have a question regarding the
>> Resource and OS templates.
>> 
>> After registering each Resource and OS template available, as a mixin
>> related to the categories "resource_tpl" and "os_tpl", how can we
>> retrieve them?
>> The specification says that every OCCI implementation must support a
>> filtering mechanism, which filters the provided categories of the
query.
>> But every
>> resource and os template is registered as a category itself, thus
cannot
>> be retrieved using this filtering mechanism.
>> 
>> I would appreciate some help.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> John
>> 
>> 
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