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Status of "ref"?

From:

Jens Hübel

Date:

2011-01-20 @ 13:58

Hi all,

I would like to get a better understanding what the status of references 
in Orderly currently is. The current spec mentions this still as a ToDo. 
For our attempt to specify a JSON-Schema for the CMIS Browser Binding at 
OASIS such a mechanism would be very useful as we have many repeating and 
nested parts in our proposal. Are there any plans to get references into 
the spec?

To me it is also unclear how this is supposed to work. If I have a ref 
type specifier pointing to another element then I would also need a 
mechanism to name the elements of a schema so that they can be referenced.
I believe that JSON-Schema has an "id" element for such purposes. 

What I have in mind would be something like this (repositoryCapabilities 
are a sub-element in repositoryInfo):

object {     
	id 
"http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/browser/201103/repositoryCapabilities";

      string  capabilityACL ["none", "discover", "manage"];
      boolean capabilityAllVersionsSearchable;
	...
 }*;

object {
      id "http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/browser/201103/repositoryInfo"
	string repositoryId;
      string repositoryName;
      string repositoryDescription;
	...
      ref 
"http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/browser/201103/repositoryCapabilities"
capabilities;
	...
 }*;

Any help would be appreciated what the recommended way is how to deal with this.

Thanks Jens.