Re: Character encodings

The XML-RPC spec is kind of nuts; it was only designed for very very 
simple use cases.

Here is one way to make the REST interface "fully featured":

1. declare a namespace for each Service: e.g. 
user="http://exist-db.org/service/UserManagementService";
2. expose all the methods on the Service interface as XQuery functions.

Then, the existing REST/Query interface allows all possible operations. 
With the added bonus that they are also available to XQuery writers. ;-)

I have one suggestion that makes working with the "collection" based 
functions easier - it would be different from xmldb:collection(), which 
currently expects a URI as its first argument to pass to 
DatabaseManager.getCollection(uri, user, pass). As a remote user I may not 
know the database-id of the engine running the query; it is not 
necessarily correct to assume that xmldb:exist:///db points to the local 
database. Also, the user running the query is already authenticated, so 
why should they pass authentication information again in the query?

May I propose (yet another) xmldb: function

xmldb:local-collection($uri as xs:string) object?

which essentially just calls context.getBroker().getCollection(uri)?

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Wolfgang Meier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Also, org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlWriter.chardata() limits the range of valid XML
> characters to < 0xFF. I had to learn that the XMLRPC spec officially only
> allows ASCII characters to be used in strings. Everything else should be
> Base64 encoded. If we accept that, we can't use the string type anywhere. I
> have thus just removed the limit.
>
> I'm not really happy with these fixes. I really think we should move from
> XMLRPC to REST as the main interface sooner or later.
>
> Wolfgang


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