perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Hi Matthias, Mark, others


I'd like to propose using strict rules for time parameters in requests 
to SQL MA and E2Emon MP.  The proposal derives from the discussion about 
time types we had recently on the mailing list. The implementation to 
use this proposal is ready in ggf package.

If you don't have any objections I will update SQL MA to support it 
(please do the same with E2Emon MP)


1) examples for unix time type


   <nmwg:parameter name="startTime">1121472000</nmwg:parameter>

 or

   <nmwg:parameter name="startTime">
       <nmtm:time type="UNIX" value="1121472000"/>
   </nmwg:parameter>


 the first one is default (no need to use time element inside parameter)


2) example for ISO 8601 time type


   <nmwg:parameter name="startTime">
       <nmtm:time type="ISO" value="2005-07-16T00:00:00Z"/>
   </nmwg:parameter>


3) example for symbolic time type


   <nmwg:parameter name="time">
       <nmtm:time type="SYMBOLIC" value="now"/>
   </nmwg:parameter>



Roman