Re: News.Report message schema in xAPFramework.net

[James]

Just wondering, does your framework run under Mono on Linux?

James

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, Stuart Booth wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:23:50 +0100, James <<a
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wrote:
>
> >If you were being really picky and worried about human readabiliy,
how
> >about giving item names a starting capital letter
>
> You know, I've never noticed that before you mentioned it! All the
> values are name cased as I like them, but the xAP keywords are all
> lowercased. I don't know why that is. I'll investigate. I am probably
> deliberately lower casing something somewhere.
>
> > and how about ordering
> >items like story,link,desc or station,title,link,desc,count.
>
> Ahhh, that's something on my ToDo list that I need to sort. The code
> just dumps all the pairs into a Dictionary object and the order they
> come out is seemingly undefined. I've not got around to maintaining
> the order they get added in, or sorting it all, either alphabetically
> or mandatory then optional as I generally prefer.
>
> >Does the
> >framework include the error field? can't think why it would need
to,
> >but??
>
> It does have support for that, but as it's an optional field, if you
> don't set it, it doesn't get included. It's got its own enumerated
> type so you can't set it to something incorrect.
>
> >Your framework really does make sending things really easy!!
>
> That's the general theme! There are a few clunky things I need to do
> something about but I like wrapping up schemas and such so that they
> handle the gritty details as far as possible. Stops errors very early
> on in the chain.
>
> >> 've added some helpful support for block name indexing to my
> >> framework code to facilitate this type of schema, to help
keep block
> >> names unique.
>
> >I try and make things a challenge
>
> Thanks! ;-) The more schemas I can encapsulate, the easier it gets to
> integrate with the apps of others.
>
> S