Reissuing VOSpace 1.1

Dave Morris dave at ast.cam.ac.uk
Sun Oct 5 07:36:40 PDT 2008


Matthew Graham wrote:

> I've had some comments about the format of the VOSpace 1.1 spec and  
> basically certain people are unhappy that it references VOSpace 1.0 
> so  much and would rather that it was more standalone. I am therefore  
> going to cut and paste a lot of stuff from the VOSpace 1.0 spec to  
> accommodate this.

If you are going to merge a lot of the the content from vospace 1.0 
specification, then it might be good to look at the wording for the 
exceptions/faults.
When I was doing the notes for the vospace1.1 specification I noticed 
that all the method descriptions have a 'Faults' section, and in both 
the appendix and the service WSDL they are referred to as 'faults', but 
in the in the document text we say :
    ".... the service should throw an XyxException"
rather than
    ".... the service should throw an XyxFault"

I left it as it was because we did the same in the vospace 1.0 
specification, and I wanted to keep the style and wording consistent 
because we were referring back to the original document. However, if we 
are going to make the vospace 1.1. document stand alone, then it might 
be good to fix this.
I think it is probably just a search for 'exception' and replace with 
'fault' where appropriate.

Hope this helps,
Dave




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