Re: MimeType changes during transfer?

[Heinrich Götzger <goetzger at gmx.net>]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Marcel Ruff wrote:

>Heinrich Götzger wrote:
>>
>> In a talk, Marcel and I had recently, I learned, that this is a
>> undocumented feature or a bug, depending on the point of view.
>>
>> Actually the subject of this mail should be something like:
>> 'MimeType changes _not_ during a session'
>>
>> But what am I talking about?
>> If a message is been published with a certain oid, it's been put in the
>> xmlblaster intern database including all relevant message info like
>> mimeType.
>>
>> Later publishes of these messages with different mimeTypes would _not_
>> force an update of the xmlBlaster intern database stored mimeType.
>> Therfore I'm not able to receive the MimeType in the subscriber I just
>> pulished in the publisher if it differs from the first mimeType of this
>> message ever published.
>>
>> This would lead to 2 possible solutions:
>>
>> 1. To check and/or set the mimeType for every message which has been
>> published.
>>
>> 2. To expand the qos with an argument like mimeTypeForce=yes or something
>> appropriate else.
>>
>> to 1. this would slow down the communication and the throughput of
>> xmlblaster dramatically.
>>
>> So I would intend to proposal 2.
>
>My vote for 2. as well,
>are you willing to implement it?

I could give it a try.

>
>>
>> We would get the opportunity to subscrib(e) to a message independently of
>> it's mimeType.
>>
>> What dou you think?
>>
>> How would one expect a MOM (or xmlBlaster) working in this case?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Marcel, am I correct?
>
>How could i tell if you are correct :-)
>Life is like our rainbow fish, it is so
>colorful and diverse, everything has its own truth ...

ok, do we get close to a good truth?

regards

Heinrich