[IPP] [PWG5100.13] Issue #40: Section 5.6.8: Clarification needed about use of 1setOf to list multiple possible values for an attribute

[IPP] [PWG5100.13] Issue #40: Section 5.6.8: Clarification needed about use of 1setOf to list multiple possible values for an attribute

smith.kennedy at hp.com smith.kennedy at hp.com
Mon Jul 11 21:01:55 UTC 2016


[Issue Unconfirmed]

Concerning IPP job constraints and resolution, "job-constraints-supported"
is a set of collections, where each collection contains the following
member attributes
- "resolver-name": specifies an identifier of a collection in
"job-resolvers-supported"
- 2+ Job Template attributes and corresponding values

The semantic is as follows: if the Job Template attributes in a collection
is matched by the current settings, there is a conflict; resolve the
conflict using the resolver with specified resolver name.  There may be
cases where multiple values for a Job Template attribute may be considered
a match.  For instance, for handling a constraint between two sided
printing and the transparency media type, a Printer might list the
following:

job-constraints-supported=
{
  resolver-name=“A”
  sides="two-sided-short-edge"
  media-col={
    media-type="transparency"
  }
},
{
  resolver-name=“A”
  sides="two-sided-long-edge"
  media-col=
  {
    media-type="transparency"
  }
}

job-resolvers-supported=
{
  resolver-name=“A”
  sides="one-sided"
  media-col=
  {
    media-type="stationery"
  }
}

To reduce the number of collections in job-constraints-supported, the Job
Template attributes can be specified of a "1setOf
<type-def-for-job-template-attribute>", so that multiple values may be
listed, like so:

job-constraints-supported=
{
  resolver-name=“A”
  sides="two-sided-long-edge","two-sided-short-edge"
  media-col={
    media-type="transparency"
  }
}

job-resolvers-supported=
{
  resolver-name=“A”
  sides="one-sided"
  media-col={
    media-type="stationery"
  }
}

However, reading section 5.6.8, doing this isn't clearly legal.  Update the
text in section 5.6.8 to make it unambiguously clear that this second form
is allowable.

Link: http://www.pwg.org/issues/40



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