Re: Lookup string format

[Stephen McConnell]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:

we had already been over the best way to format
the lookup string back in august

On formatting, the concensus as I seem to remember was :
  <domain> ":" <key>

I'm slowly digesting the recent volume of discussions, but I just to toss in
an idea on this specific issue.

  (1) There is the existing property convention, using the
      standard java qualified name convention, e.g.,
      org.apache.avalon.<local-name>

  (2) Alternatively, there is RFC 2141, which appears to be
      the direction you're indicating.
      (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt)

As I understand it, Avalon has already gone over the choice between the
existing "Java" convention and a <domain> ":" <key> convention, and Stephen
indicates that he believes that the latter was chosen.  Fine.

However, if Avalon is going to adopt a <domain> ":" <key> notion, then I
suggest that Avalon vote to adopt RFC 2141, and incorporate it by reference.
Incorporating RFC 2141 will save you from having to go through all of the
arguments already dealt with during the production of the RFC, and provides
more detailed and specific information necessary for users and implementors.

Applying RFC 2141 is fine from my point of view. As such I need to
update the examples I provided earlier to reflect marlin and phoenix
as subdomains of the avalon domain.

For example:

apache:avalon:home.work <----- the working directory

apache:avalon:merlin:something-special.whetever <-- changed to
reflect merlin as a sub-domain of avalon and avalon as a sub-domain
of apache

apache:avalon:phoenix:something-solid.xxx <-- changed to reflect
phoenix as a sub-domain of avalon and avalon as a sub-domain of
apache

If there's no drama on this, I'll go ahead and update merlin specific keys to be RFC 2141 based on a *apache:avalon:merlin* domain.

Cheers, Steve.

	--- Noel


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