Re: [Plastic-devs] ivo://votech.org/fits/image/loadFromURL

[John T. <jd...@ro...>]

Hi Thomas - just to clarify....at the moment if you did receive the 
argument, you'd ignore it, rather than have an error?
John

Thomas Boch wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> As we don't have yet a message taking an image id as an argument, it may
> seem less critical than having an id for the "load votable" message. 
> I nevertheless support this proposition, for consistency and future
> flexibility.
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas
>
> John Taylor wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>> I'd like to propose that the above message take an optional string id
>> argument, for the same reasons that we allow one for VOTables
>> (applications might change the URL as they pass the file around, but
>> they should not change the id).  If absent, the id will default to the
>> URL.  As for VOTables, this id argument should be optional for backwards
>> compatibility, but strongly recommended in new apps.
>>
>> John.
>>     
>
>   


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