Our "allornone" attribute is boolean, where True implies that all
aspects of the printing (including attribute parsing, etc) must
succeed (or be valid), else the job is cancelled.
I really like the resolution of "best-effort" in the telecon on
March 21, whereby that attribute becomes a single, job-wide attribute.
...jay
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:54:03 -0800
From: Robert.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Herriot)
To: ipp@pwg.org, jkm@underscore.com
Subject: Re: IPP> MOD - Incompatible attribute specs: To Print or Not To Print?
> From jkm@underscore.com Fri Mar 21 09:38:41 1997
>
>
> To solve this kind of problem, most of our software provides a special
> attribute named "allornone" that a user can specify to say "if any part
> of the job fails, then cancel the entire rest of the job". Part of the
> job processing involves ensure all specified attributes are valid for
> the target printer; hence, if "allornone" is specified--but one or more
> attributes is invalid for the target printer--then the job is cancelled
> (and a message is sent to the user describing the details of the failure).
>
>
> Comments?
>
> ...jay
>
Am I correct that your "allornone" attribute is the same idea as the
best-effort job attribute we discussed today. The best-effort attribute
has at least two values. One is "honor-all-attributes-or-print-nothing",
and another is "print-and-try-your-best-to-honor-all-attributes".
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