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List:       uddi4j-general
Subject:    Re: [Uddi4j-general] requested feature: Contact methods
From:       "David Melgar" <dmelgar () us ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2001-02-28 14:27:28
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The descriptions issue evolved. Throughout the rest of the code, the
getXXXStrings methods are added when retrieving elements that contains
nothing but a string. If the element contains multiple attributes, it
generally does not have a getXXXStrings method.
Descriptions evolved otherwise due to misinterpretation of the schema. The
schema does not indicate any other attributes for description, however UDDI
makes use of the language attribute that is available within XML. The
language attribute was added to the Description object after the fact.
The getDescriptionStrings method is an issue. It is misleading. Folks think
that it is a vector of lines of a description. That is not true. Each
string represents a different language, and you can't figure that out from
the vector. The first element in the vector is the default (english)
description.
I've been thinking about removing the getDescriptionStrings methods.
Replacing with a getDefaultDescriptionString method.


Andrew Hately/Austin/IBM@IBMUS@dwoss.lotus.com on 02/28/2001 12:34:22 AM

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Even with the descriptions, there is a language attribute that should not
be ignored.  There should be only one string description per language, so
looking at just the strings through this method can be a little misleading.

If your suggestion was something other than direct access to the text
within the element, please elaborate.

Andrew Hately
IBM Austin
UDDI Development, Emerging Technologies


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Subject:        Re: [Uddi4j-general] requested feature: Contact methods


EMail and Phone objects contain the email address and a usetype attribute.
I'm not sure how we would/should handle the useType attribute if it were
collapsed into strings.


Scott Curry <scurry@Frictionless.com>@dwoss.lotus.com on 02/27/2001
05:34:37 PM

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Hello,

It would be convienent to add a couple more methods to the Contact object.
Right now there is a getDescriptionStrings() method which returns a vector
of strings of the lines of the description.  It would be helpful to have
similiar methods for the email vector and the phone vector.

Scott


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