FYI, I pushed the new caps branch. Nothing in there works yet, it just compiles. For the moment, it's a scratchpad, things are fairly incomplete, and I expect it to go through a few major changes. If interested, please take a look. Things worth noticing:

- The additional [ClientStack.LindenCaps] in OpenSimDefaults.ini. This is how I envision making these services configurable. I took that big list from here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Current_Sim_Capabilities (I understand OpenSim doesn't provide for all of those) The idea being that if that is set to localhost we do what we currently do, but if set to a URL we use that URL string as is, possibly appended with the authorization token when that mechanism works.

- The new OpenSim.Region.ClientStack.Linden, replacing OpenSim.Region.ClientStack.LindenUDP, which now contains 2 parts: UDP and Caps

- The new OpenSim.Capabilities.Handlers, which for the moment contains only the GetTexture handler. I'm using that one as the model for how to do this in general.

Again, things are incomplete. But I want to share this right now, so that ppl have the chance to influence how this is going.

On 4/30/2011 7:44 AM, Diva Canto wrote:
I'm going to do this work on a branch called caps. This is mostly refactoring, not new development; it can go through a few iterations until we're all happy with the result.

On 4/29/2011 3:01 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
On 4/29/2011 2:37 PM, Melanie wrote:
Hi,

Caps as such are a a generic concept, they are not a Lindenism,
IMHO. Linden didn't invent them and I believe that the CAPS
mechanism as such should remain in the normal namespace.

The idea is generic; our implementation is not; it's full of LL-specific things, like LLSD, and it is serving the Linden clients specifically. Other uses of capabilities will probably look quite different.

Also, modules already use CAPS, if CAPS were in the client stack,
they would be much harder to access,, since the client stack is
somewhat isolated from modules.
We can have modules in any dll. The proposal here is to move all CAPs-related modules out of the core dlls, and have them in a Linden dll, because they are designed to serve the Linden clients.

I believe that it should be possible to re-route caps to other
destinations, ROBUST or external servers, but not by moving all
handlers into the Servers namespace, that is not what it was meant
for. That would bloat and pollute it. This warrants more discussion.

I agree. We can place them in some other Server.Handlers-like dll. How about OpenSim.Server.Capabilities.dll?

Crista

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