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Re: [core] [T2TRG] Review of CoRAL

Klaus Hartke <hartke@projectcool.de> Tue, 06 November 2018 07:03 UTC

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Christian Amsüss wrote:
> The grouper version is probably more concise than the note that "the
> Python code expects base and href not to be input in the trivial
> deserialization of a CBOR array, but as a list of (option number, option
> value) pairs" that should otherwise be there.

Right, but it also makes the code slightly less self explanatory. I'll
think about it. Thanks!

> Having read up on them, a "profile" has a no-changes-to-interpretation
> condition:
>
>   A profile MUST NOT change the semantics of the resource representation
>   when processed without profile knowledge, so that clients both with
>   and without knowledge of a profiled resource can safely use the same
>   representation
>
> Given that a client without knowledge of the profile can't process a
> representation, the parameter should probably be called something else.

Good catch! I've changed the parameter name to "registry" in my working copy.

Klaus

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