[Esip-discovery] Request to change our Open Search Best Practices

[Doug Newman]

I have had two responses to this issue. Both are 'ambivalent but OK with 
change to startIndex'.

In light of that I am going to look at removing the startPage 
recommendation from the ESIP/CWIC Best Practices. Our Best Practice will 
promote using startIndex to traverse a result set.

Cheers,

Doug Newman - ECHO Operations Lead
douglas.j.newman at nasa.gov
doug.newman at raytheon.com
Raytheon Mission Support Solutions Intelligence, Information and Services | NASA | ECS Evolution Development Program
http://earthdata.nasa.gov/echo

Note: I am not a government employee and have no legal authority to obligate any federal, state, or local government to perform any action of payment.

On 1/13/15 10:31 AM, Doug Newman wrote:
> The OGC have asked us to change the following in our ESIP Best 
> Practices for Open Search
>
> User startIndex instead of startPage as a means of result set navigation.
>
> Pros
>
>   * startIndex is part of the base Open Search specification,
>     startPage is not
>   * Introducing startPage to the base Open Search specification
>     introduces the possibility of error cases when clients mix the two
>
> Cons
>
>   * startIndex is less intuitive (imho) than startPage for page navigation
>   * we have a number of implementations and best practices reliant on
>     startPage (I don't want to add a custom non-spec parameter as that
>     will decrease interoperability with OGC-compliant implemtations)
>
> Please respond with your thoughts on this change by COB 01/20/15
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Doug Newman - ECHO Operations Lead
> douglas.j.newman at nasa.gov
> doug.newman at raytheon.com
> Raytheon Mission Support Solutions Intelligence, Information and Services | NASA | ECS Evolution Development Program
> http://earthdata.nasa.gov/echo
>
> Note: I am not a government employee and have no legal authority to obligate any federal, state, or local government to perform any action of payment.

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