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make media types clearly reusable #70

Closed dret closed 7 years ago

dret commented 7 years ago

On 2017-08-03 13:12, Herbert Van de Sompel wrote:

Regarding "expressing any collection of links, not just link sets": Because the generic format is defined in the same document as the notions of link sets and "linkset" relation type, it is extremely easy to reach the conclusion that the JSON serialization is for link sets. Meaning it should be made explicit that link sets are a special case for which the JSON serialization can be used.

i'd be more than happy to tweak the draft accordingly and make sure that the media type sections are free of any assumptions. generally speaking, though, i don't think that linksets put additional constraints on the representation (as discussed in https://github.com/dret/I-D/issues/68#issuecomment-320096956); they simply mean that not all links found in a representation make sense to be considered in linkset scenarios. those links that don't apply to the origin resource can be safely ignored.

dret commented 7 years ago

i think we're in agreement that the media types are intended to be reusable outside of the context of the linkset link relations. if that's the case, @hvdsomp, please feel free to close this issue.

hvdsomp commented 7 years ago

Agreed. And new version of the I-D will make this clear, among others by defining the media types before the "linkset" relation type. Closing.