We had talked briefly about this in the v1 timeframe. Between the security issues and the need for the Consumer to remember the properties in many cases anyway, we decided it was reasonable to always place the burden of remembering them on the Consumer and therefore did not define means for them to retrieved from the Producer. Rich ----- Forwarded by Rich Thompson/Watson/IBM on 09/20/2007 10:58 AM -----

Nathan E Lipke <nli...@bea.com> To wsrp...@lists.oasis-open.org cc 09/12/2007 01:18 PM Subject [wsrp-comment] There is no way in the spec to retrieve registration properties

We have a couple of use-cases which require the current value of a consumer's registration properties to be fetched by the consumer. This is not currently possible in the WSRP 2.0 spec.

1. During modifyRegistration present the user with a dialog box with registration properties in it. 1. We would like to display the current property values, so the user can only change what's needed. 2. We would like to be able to move a registration from one producer to another (e.g. staging to production)

We have thought of 2 ways to achieve this:

* Add registrationProperties to the ServiceDescription type o Possibly add a boolean to getServiceDescription to determine when it is wanted * Add a new method to the Registration Interface to mirror the methods in the Portlet Management Interface o PropertyList getRegistrationProperties(registrationContext, UserContext, names) o Note: getRegistrationPropertyDescription(...) would not be needed as this information is available in the service description.

Thanks,

Nate