More flexibility for extra slection choices

[simoncn]

(11-09-2013 09:24)winxi Wrote:  If I understand it correctly, both these approaches are not mutually exclusive and both of these could be applied by MinimServer (given that there is a way to pass such an argument in a browse request for approach 2).

In theory they aren't mutually exclusive, but I don't think MinimServer should support both of them. The ideal solution would be a single simple extension that would eventually be adopted by a reasonable number of control points and possibly other servers.

Quote:Please let me summarize approach 1) to see whether I understand this right:
MinimServer could mark the extra selection choice containers when sent to a control point. Standard control points ignore this nonstandard marker. A control point which makes use of this marker and receives a marked container, should:

1) ignore this container if it is the result of a recursive subtree search.
2) omit the 'Hide Contents' step (i.e. automatically select the second entry in the following step where 'Hide Contents' is the first entry) if it is the result of a request for an interactive representation.

Yes, that's right. It might be possible to refine step 2) so that the ordering of the subselections doesn't need to be fixed. For example, the nonstandard metadata could say whch subselection to use.