Re: [Plastic-devs] VOQuest + PLASTIC

[Mark T. <m.b...@br...>]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Mark Taylor wrote:

> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Thomas Boch wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > With hindsight I'd say that the way the change was made was suboptimal -
> > > if the parameter list change had been
> > > 
> > >    (String votable) -> (String votable, String id)
> > > 
> > > rather than
> > > 
> > >    (String votable) -> (String id, String votable)
> > 
> > Note that the current version of Aladin incorrectly expects that the
> > parameter list is (String votable, String id) ...
> 
> I didn't realise that - in that case since we (well, I) agree it's 
> better that way, and that's what Aladin does, it might be best 
> to declare that the bug is in the specification and just change that.
> Is there code anywhere which uses this method in the declared 
> (String id, String votable) form?

... I'll take that as a no for now.  If nobody contradicts, then John
can you modify the ivo://votech.org/votable/load message arguments
in coremessages.html so that they read (votable:String, id:String) 
rather than the other way around.

TOPCAT now tolerates an optional second argument for this message -
pre-release version at

   ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/topcat/topcat-full.jar

Mark

-- 
Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
m.b...@br... +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/