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

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

Oh yes of course - you're quite right. 

Thomas Boch wrote:
> John Taylor wrote:
>   
>> Hi Thomas - just to clarify....at the moment if you did receive the
>> argument, you'd ignore it, rather than have an error?
>> John
>>     
>
> Sorry, I was unclear.
> I meant that having an id for a votable is very important because this
> id can then be used to identify a given table when using the
> "showobjects" message. At the time, we (PLASTICers) have not defined a
> message taking an image id as an argument. That was my point.
>
> If an application sends to current version of Aladin an
> "ivo://votech.org/fits/image/loadFromURL" message with an extra
> argument, it would just ignore it.
>
> Thomas
>
>   
>> 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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