Mike, Does the browse frontend work? What's the path where it is registered? The old CB browse interface was registered on '/' but I can't get to it on the new assetinventory server.
--mic On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Mike Mazur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > In SVN r8407-8435 you will find the new Asset/Inventory server in the > OpenSim trunk. I don't recommend using any revision between 8407-8435, > they will likely not compile. > > If you want to jump in and use it right away, here's how: > > 1. Compile as usual > 2. Copy bin/AssetInventoryServer.ini.example to > bin/AssetInventoryServer.ini and edit it accordingly > 3. Instead of running OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer.exe, run > OpenSim.Grid.AssetInventoryServer.exe > 4. Use at your own risk, there may still be bugs > > Hopefully the AssetInventoryServer.ini.example file has clear enough > comments to answer most configuration questions. > > Also, please note that the inventory portion is, for all intents and > purposes, *not implemented*. Please read on for more details. > > What is Currently Implemented > > Currently the AssetInventoryServer can be used as a drop-in replacement > for the existing AssetServer. No configuration changes are needed to > the rest of the grid servers. > > In addition to that there are a handful of plugins included that > provide additional functionality, such as browsing the assets via your > web browser. Actually, the code is there, but it's not "turned on", > which brings us to the next section... > > The plugin system was converted from ExtensionLoader to Mono.Addins. > > What is Missing > > There are a few things I commented out in the interest of getting the > code into core: > > - Cookie & SSL support is commented out until the HttpServer in OpenSim > supports these features. If it already does, then it should be easy > to turn those features on again. > - Regex HTTP handlers. Some of the frontends[1][2] support HTTP > handlers defined as regular expressions to match a UUID. As far as I > could tell this didn't work with the HTTP server in OpenSim. > - The AssetStorage plugins provide a ForEach() method that iterates > over a set of assets. See OpenSimAssetStorage[3] for an example. This > used SQL that's not currently implemented in OpenSim's storage > backends, so it's commented out. > - Some of the extensions in the Cable Beach SVN[4] are also not > included, such as the OpenID authentication and Amazon S3 or Memcached > storage backends. > > These missing features can be supported once the underlying > infrastructure in OpenSim (HttpServer, DB storage) support the features > they require. > > Also the Inventory section is completely commented out. This is because > there's a larger number of functions to map to the existing inventory > storage than with assets; there are only two asset operations (fetch > and create), while there are many with inventory (fetch item, folder, > folder and contents, create item, folder, delete item, folder etc). > These can be implemented over time. > > To Wrap Up > > Thanks to John Hurliman and all the other contributors for their work > on Cable Beach. > > Please test, give feedback, file bugs (if you must) and have fun! > > Thanks, > Mike > > > [1] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/OpenSim/Grid/AssetInventoryServer/Plugins/ReferenceFrontendPlugin.cs?revision=8435&view=markup&pathrev=8435#l_105 > [2] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/OpenSim/Grid/AssetInventoryServer/Plugins/BrowseFrontendPlugin.cs?revision=8435&view=markup&pathrev=8435#l_101 > [3] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/OpenSim/Grid/AssetInventoryServer/Plugins/OpenSim/OpenSimAssetStoragePlugin.cs?revision=8435&view=markup&pathrev=8435#l_116 > [4] > http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/assetserver/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2FAssetServer%2FExtensions%2F > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
