Re: [Tmapi-discuss] type-instance-associations feature

[Jamie N. <ja...@ar...>]

Hi Benjamin,

> * http://www.tmapi.org/features/ is outdated.

Does this mean that it is no longer true, as stated on that page, that
all of the feature strings listed there must be at least recognised by
an implementation?

I've been taking a look at the Quaax PHPTMAPI implementation, as being
slightly closer to Python than Java - between the tests in the TMAPI
distribution, the TMDM, the API docs, and this implementation, I think
I've got everything covered.

I've noticed that some parts of the API are missing full test coverage
of their expected behaviour. Would it be useful to send through a list
of these? I've written Python tests for a couple of these gaps, which I
could easily convert to Java code if that would be helpful.

> PPS: Some Topic Mappers tend to use TMQL instead of TMAPI nowadays.
> However, TMQL's standardization is still in flux. There's an Open
> Source implementation in Java here http://code.google.com/p/tmql/
> which features two versions of the standard, 2008 and 2010. The 2008
> version (currently found here: http://isotopicmaps.org/tmql/tmql.html)
> is more complete and the 2010 version is closer aligned to the TMDM.
> The above-referenced Java project has some additions like
> UPDATE-statements etc.

Given that TMQL is, as you say, still in flux, I'm going to stick with
TMAPI for a while yet. My implementation is also mostly complete, as far
as the core goes.

Jamie