It was brought to my attention at the Niagara Summit that "overridden" is not one of the valid values for the curStatus tag. Why is that? I mentioned it to a couple of people and there was general agreement that it would be really useful.
Its worth noting that NHaystack currently will report "overridden" as a value for curStatus. This is arguably a bug, since it doesn't follow the haystack spec.
So should we fix NHaystack, or should we add "overridden" as an allowable curStatus value? What are the pros and cons?
Brian FrankTue 6 May 2014
I don't think we can say what the final decision should be without making a decision on how overrides should work. But in all the discussions so far, there was no options to make it part of curStatus. Long discussion at topic 103
Mike JarmyTue 6 May 2014
Hmm. Well that is a very interesting and complex discussion. Apparently the subject is a little more complicated than I thought :-). It looks like a resolution was never reached though.
For the time being I will change NHaystack to follow the spec. I guess this means that an AX status of "overridden" will be treated as an "ok" -- I'm not sure what else to do with curStatus. Perhaps I should include an axOverridden tag as well?
Brian FrankTue 6 May 2014
AX status of "overridden" will be treated as an "ok" -- I'm not sure what else to do with curStatus. Perhaps I should include an axOverridden tag as well?
I agree that seems safest approach - gives you future proofing in nhaystack, but still you have the flexibility to add whatever we define for overrides formally
Mike Jarmy Tue 6 May 2014
It was brought to my attention at the Niagara Summit that "overridden" is not one of the valid values for the curStatus tag. Why is that? I mentioned it to a couple of people and there was general agreement that it would be really useful.
Its worth noting that NHaystack currently will report "overridden" as a value for
curStatus. This is arguably a bug, since it doesn't follow the haystack spec.So should we fix NHaystack, or should we add "overridden" as an allowable
curStatusvalue? What are the pros and cons?Brian Frank Tue 6 May 2014
I don't think we can say what the final decision should be without making a decision on how overrides should work. But in all the discussions so far, there was no options to make it part of
curStatus. Long discussion at topic 103Mike Jarmy Tue 6 May 2014
Hmm. Well that is a very interesting and complex discussion. Apparently the subject is a little more complicated than I thought :-). It looks like a resolution was never reached though.
For the time being I will change NHaystack to follow the spec. I guess this means that an AX status of "overridden" will be treated as an "ok" -- I'm not sure what else to do with curStatus. Perhaps I should include an axOverridden tag as well?
Brian Frank Tue 6 May 2014
I agree that seems safest approach - gives you future proofing in nhaystack, but still you have the flexibility to add whatever we define for overrides formally