DASL Scenarios
April 1, 1998
Saveen Reddy
Introduction
- Go through set of scenarios that will be useful for DAV
- Solving these earliest scenarios is at least one of the success criteria for DASL
- Feedback is important: need to be sure we have the common-case scenarios covered; DASL must have answers for these.
- May have multiple scenario sets
The Minimum Bar
PROPFIND: DASL must support at least the functionality offered by the PROPFIND method.
- Retrieve specific properties
- Retrieve all properties
- Depth
- Information in result set (status codes for properties)
More Complex Issues
- Filtering
- Sorting
- Paged Results
Simple Navigation
- List the sub-collections of a collection
- Find the full hierarchy of a collection (tree-view)
Simple Filtering
Find all the resources …
- of content-type “image/gif”
- written in German
- authored by Me
- modified between April 1 and April 20 1998
Content-Based Querying
- Find all the documents …
- containing the word “Happy”
- containing “Street Fighter” but not “Alpha”
- containing “Today” (case-insensitive)
More complex queries
Find
- all locked resources
- all the lock owners
- all docs names that appear in multiple collections
Feedback?
- What are scenarios of interest?
- What are the most common scenarios?
- What should be in the minimum set of features?