[occi-wg] Request for clarification: Are multiple lines allowed?

[Andy Edmonds]

I believe that not is allowed. The newlines in this case are merely for
readability purposes. Thijs?

On 25 February 2013 16:44, Vincenzo Ciaschini <
vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
>     Thanks for the fast answer!
>
>     A clarification is possibly needed: what we are discussing in the
> Federated
> Cloud group is not what happens when multiple headers are present, but
> if a single
> Category header element can be written on multiple lines. i.e. if the
> following
> representation of a category, taken from page 20:
>
> Category: storage;
>     scheme="http://schemas.ogf.org/occi/infrastructure#";
>     class="kind";
>     title="Storage Resource";
>     rel="http://schemas.ogf.org/occi/core#resource";
>     location="/storage/";
>     attributes="occi.storage.size{required}
> occi.storage.state{immutable}";
>
> actions="http://schemas.ogf.org/occi/infrastructure/storage/action#resize
> ...";
>
> Is acceptable in the answer as is, with the newlines between elements
> and the
> indentation, or if it is supposed to be on a single line.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>     Vincenzo
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:10:00 +0100, Andy Edmonds wrote:
> > Hi Vincenzo
> > Having a the same header repeated multiple times with different
> > values
> > is allowable by the HTTP spec. OCCI respects (OCCI always aims to
> > respect the HTTP spec RFC2616) this hence why you may see two
> > different renderings: one with all values "compressed" into one
> > header
> > line or multiple same headers with different values. If you
> > "compress"
> > each value must be ',' delineated. Note these rules also apply if the
> > content is supplied in the body (OCCI specific).
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > Andy Edmonds Æ
> > Senior Researcher
> > Institute of Information Technology
> > Zürich University of Applied Sciences
> > http://www.cloudcomp.ch [4], @dizz
> >
> > On 25 February 2013 16:03, Vincenzo Ciaschini  wrote:
> >
> >> Dear members of the occi-wg,
> >>
> >>    In the federated clouds working group, we are having a
> >> discussion about the interpretation of the HTTP rendering of the
> >> OCCI standard (document GFD.185,
> >> http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.185.pdf [1])
> >>
> >>    Our doubt is the following.
> >>
> >>    In several examples in the document, for examples in section
> >> 3.4, page 8 or in section 3.5.1, page 20, we see Category: elements
> >> laid out in multiple lines.
> >>
> >>    Our doubt is if this examples are normative, and thus it is
> >> acceptable to write them in multiple lines, or if this had been done
> >> just for readability, and the answers from the OCCI server should
> >> actually lay out a Category in a single line.
> >>
> >>    In the interest of interoperability among our different
> >> implementations, can you please clarify this point?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>    On behalf of the Federated Clouds Working Group
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> occi-wg mailing list
> >> occi-wg at ogf.org [2]
> >> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/occi-wg [3]
> >
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] http://ogf.org/documents/GFD.185.pdf
> > [2] mailto:occi-wg at ogf.org
> > [3] https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/occi-wg
> > [4] http://www.cloudcomp.ch
> > [5] mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it
>
>
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