Re: [higgins-dev] Change to IDigitalSubject

[Greg Byrd <gbyrd@xxxxxxxx>]

So how about making IDigitalSubject a sub-interface of IResource?   I 
don't see the need for another interface type that has no other uses, 
and IResource doesn't add anything to IEntity anyway, except for also 
implementing IHasMetadata.

...Greg


Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> Oops, we were talking about it on the #higgins chat channel, and I 
> forgot it wasn't discussed here.
>  
> Well, not much of a debate. I added IResource and ILiteral interfaces 
> sometime back (for attribute value types).  Today I finally got around 
> to fleshing out IResource and noticed for the second time that it's 
> almost exactly like IDigitalSubject (just doesn't have a Context). So 
> rather that duplicating the APIs having to do with attributes, name, 
> and type, I proposed a super-interface for that.
>  
> We debated between IObject and IEntity.  I'm open to other names or 
> solutions if they're better.
>  
> Jim
>
> >>> Greg Byrd <gbyrd@xxxxxxxx> 9/19/06 6:32 PM >>>
>
> So I missed this debate -- what's the reason for the change to IEntity?
>
> ...Greg
>
>
> Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> > For all you context provider writers out there, I forgot to tell you
> > that as part of the creation of the more generic IEntity, the method
> > name changed (was IDigitalSubject.getUniqueID, is now
> > IEntity.getName). In terms of its use on IDigitalSubject, it's still
> > the Contextually Unique Identifier. I suppose that's true for its use
> > on IResource as well.  Hmm, maybe I should have left the name
> > alone...  Opinions?
> > 
> > Jim
> >
>
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