Re: Which collections to upload and post to

[Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/1/05, David M Johnson <Davidm.Johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> For now, I'm making these assumptions:
> 
>     Workspace ==> blog
>        1st collection with contents = 'entries' ==> main blog
>        1st collection with contents = 'generic' ==> uploaded files
> 
> I'd like to know what other implementors are doing and what the spec
> authors intended here.


The idea of using the first collection as the default sounds good to me.

My thoughts were that the 'title' attribute of each collection element
would be presented to the user for them to choose which collection to
use.

The list of values for the @contents attribute can be expanded to give
more granularity. For example, if we are managing templates, do we
want that to be a 'generic' collection, or do create a more specific
'template' type? Here we'll have to do the usual balancing act between
generic/flexible and targeted/inflexible. For example, do we have a
separate kind of collection for link blogs? book blogs? music blogs?
How about separate types of collections for non-entry collections,
such as templates?,  photos?

  Thanks,
  -joe

> 
> - Dave
> 
> 
> 
> On May 31, 2005, at 11:34 AM, David M Johnson wrote:
> 
> >
> > Uploading files
> >
> > It is not obvious how to upload files via the Atom protocol, there is
> > no longer any ResourcePostURI, but there are now "generic" collections
> > which allow resources of any content type.
> >
> > So I assume that one is to upload resources by POSTing them to a
> > generic collection, but which one? There can be multiple collections
> > with contents="generic."  When a user wants to upload a file, I guess
> > I need to ask them which collection they want to post to. Am I missing
> > something here? Is there no default resources collection?
> >
> > Posting entries
> >
> > I guess I have the same question about entries. Blog clients are going
> > to have to present a list of collections and allow a user to navigate
> > and edit each. Is there no "default" entry collection?
> >
> > I'm not saying that we need default collections. I'm just trying to
> > understand.
> >
> > - Dave
> >
> 
> 


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