Agreed. I had also find the <action> tag limiting.
For example, if I had a rule which requires adaptation based on users:
<property name="user-id" matches="staff">
<action>some.adaptation.service</action>
</property>
There is no way I can pass the actual user-id, say "staff.foo" to the
adpatation service.
Perhaps this call for the <action> tag to have additional attributes, for
example:
<action var="user-id">some.adaptation.service</action>
that when triggered, will actually binds to the following URL:
some.adpation.service?user-id=staff.foo
Comments?
/cwng
I feel that it is essential to have a parameter binding method. It could
be limited to things that are part of the rule match.
Hilarie
Markus Hofmann <hofmann(_at_)bell-labs(_dot_)com> 08/31/01 10:29AM >>>
Ng Chan Wah wrote:
However, I do feel that the regex-only matching is limiting,
and the number
of different system variables might not be sufficient.
That's certainly something to discuss and to be reflected in the
policy requirements document. Anybody else comments on that?
However, if the decisions to make content adaptation is the
responsibility
of the adaptation services, then there should be a way to pass
variables to
the adaptation services.
This can be done using the common "?" syntax in the URL. The question
is, though, whether this is sufficient or whether we want to have a
mechanism to pass addition (meta-) data to the service. Anybody else
comments on that?
-Markus