Re: URI stuff

[Stephen Adkins]

Hi,

Are you going to work on this?
Or are you just wishing that someone would?

If you are going to work on this, I have some additional
requirements to propose.  I think the first thing is to
research the existing namespaces and propose a package name.

Stephen

At 01:18 PM 2/28/2002 +0900, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:
>At Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:12:20 -0500,
>Stephen Adkins wrote:
>
>> Your question seems to suggest that there should be a class
>> (perhaps P5EEx::Blue::UniversalResource) which has the
>> properties that you suggest. (On the other hand, it should
>> almost certainly be developed outside the P5EE namespace
>> because it has general value.)
>> 
>> It might have a usage as follows.
>> 
>>    use UniversalResource;
>> 
>>    $uri = "http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/index.html";;
>>    $ur = UniversalResource->new($uri);
>>    $content_type = $ur->content_type();
>>    $content = $ur->content();  # return the binary data
>>    $handle = $ur->handle();    # return an IO::Handle to read the data
>> 
>>    $uri2 = "http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/images/logo.png";;
>>    $ur2 = UniversalResource->new($uri2);
>>    $img = $ur->content_as_object(); # return a Perl class often used
>>                                # to operate on such data (such as "GD")
>> 
>> Is this what you are getting at?
>
>Exactly.
>
>  UniversalResource->new("http://hostname/path/";); # HTTP
>  UniversalResource->new("file://path/to/file");   # FileHandle
>  UniversalResource->new("data:image/png;...");    # raw data (see URI::data)
>  UniversalResource->new("ftp://user:pass@hostname/path";); # FTP
>
>Then we can handle these resource transparently with single common
>API.
>
>> I intend that all Entity Widgets will be identifiable by URL's so that
>> they can be accessed from anywhere within the network (by reference or
>> by value).
>
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