Did @[email protected] or @[email protected] put together a draft FEP that successfully merges 7888, 400e, and @[email protected]’s conversation containers? I remember reading it last week, and wonder if it’s the one true FEP that will render the others obsolete.
There is a draft of Conversation Containers FEP: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/171b/fep-171b.md
And I’ve come up with a plan for FEP-400e and FEP-1b12 convergence: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/object/e9b7fb34c4af9291b9b98095e661789d@[email protected] Thanks for sharing this. I’m confused by these two sentences:
Collection type SHOULD be
Context. …Add.targetMUST be a partial representation of the collection. Thus, if type of the collection isContext, anyAddactivity modifying that collection can be identified byAdd.target.type.My context collection is of type
OrderedCollection. I don’t believeContextis one of the AS2 core types.I don’t see any reference to collection
typebeingContextin @[email protected]’s original document.That wasn’t in my original doco and I’m not using it currently. I’ll need to see what problem is solved by having Context before I offer an opinion.
I recall @[email protected] took issue with the fact that ‘context’ and ‘target’ are the same object and he felt this was duplicitous. There’s also a bit of an issue that a “partial object” (defined in FEP-400e) isn’t really defined anywhere in the base specs either - and perhaps using Context will help resolve that.
Since it’s a SHOULD, my original implementation is arguably compliant with the FEP without it.
Contexthelps with identifying thetarget. When I receive anAddactivity, I need to know what collection is being modified. Is it afeaturedcollection, acontext, or something else?One solution is to keep an index of all known collections and search through it every time Add is received.
Another solution would require cooperation from producers, but I think it is a bit cleaner: embed partial representation of atargetand use specific type there, likeContext, instead ofCollection. Then, as a consumer, I can simply checktarget.typeinstead of searching fortarget.idin my collection index.@trwnh @mikedev @julian This object design pattern (partial embeddings) can be used in other situations too. We can use a new property like
partial: truedo indicate partial representations:https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/partially-embedded-objects/4450
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/171b/fep-171b.md
It isn’t so much “one FEP to rule them all” as it is that Conversation Containers stands on the shoulders of giants.
