IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Re: SLP Printer Service Template
Re: IPP> Re: SLP Printer Service Template
Erik Guttman (
Erik.Guttman@Sun.COM)
Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:18:38 +0100
Ira Mcdonald x10962 wrote:
>
> Hi Angelo,
>
> The underlying IPP Printer object attributes 'printer-uri-supported'
> and 'uri-security-supported' are (and MUST be) ordered lists.
> If SLP purists insist that we can have no ordered lists as
> values of a 'printer:' attribute, then we have a serious problem.
>
> Separately, I think it would be FAR better to have a
> 'pages-per-minute-mono' and
> 'pages-per-minute-color'
> attributes in the 'printer:' template (perhaps with the
> monochrome attribute being Mandatory and the color one
> Optional?).
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira McDonald
> High North Inc
> 906-494-2434
There is no problem creating ordered lists as values for SLP.
You can't use ',' to delimit them, though. You create a syntax
for the lists to delimit the values which is distinct from SLP.
For instance, you could use ';' as the delimiter.
(pages-per-minute=mono;10,color;1)
In this example, pages-per-minute has two values from an SLP
perspective "mono;10" and "color;1". You could parse this at
the client side to be two values which have 'two fields' apiece.
Parsing them out, you know that the printer has a speed of 10 for
mono and 1 for color, etc. There is nothing in SLP or the template
specs to stop you from adding semantics (ordering, etc.) to the
string attribute values.
Erik