Hi Jody, Ben,

I think my brain hurts :-)

I agree that we need to talk to Ben (code for "it's his fault") but in
the short term I'll just leave defer any fiddling with the terminology
in the javadocs for DataStore etc.

Michael

On 5 May 2010 17:27, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ben should really enter this conversation :-) The app schema guys are the 
> only ones who are experiencing this stuff....
>
> Let me try - type name is used here:
> - DataAccess.getNames(): List<Name>
> - DataStore.getTypeNames(): String[]
> - DataAccess.getFeatureSource( name );
> - DataStore.getFeatureSource( String);
> - ...
>
> Up until this point this has always been "type name" ...  what it means we 
> need to talk to Ben about.
>
> For "typeName" is the FeatureType "name" and matches to a complexType in XML 
> Schema
> DataSource.getSchema().getName()
> DataSource.getDescriptor().getType().getName() // pending proposal as 
> "descriptor" is not available
> FeatureCollection.getSchema().getName();
> Feature.getType().getName()
>
> For "memberName" is a descriptor name and matches to am XML element, such as 
> feature collection member ... this is not really "outed" in our API yet until 
> Ben thinks it through.
> - DataStore.getDescriptor( name ) /// huh not sure if this makes sense?
> - FeatureSource.getDescriptor() // pending proposal as "descriptor" is not 
> available
> - FeatureCollection.getDescriptor() // pending proposal as "descriptor" is 
> not available
>
> What is your take on things?
> Jody
>

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