Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design - OTD XML

2007-12-06 Thread Lalo Martins
Also spracht Reed Hedges (Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:46:37 -0500): > Or you could use any file format for Vobjects, even COD. Back in S4 I > sketched out a possible curly-bracket format called "SOD" I think > (don't remember it exactly anymore though, maybe there's a message about > it in the archive?

Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design - OTD XML

2007-12-06 Thread Reed Hedges
Karsten Otto wrote: > Am 05.12.2007 um 22:13 schrieb Peter Amstutz: >>> The interface description seems to slowly approach WSDL Land... Have >>> you considered some shorthand syntax to free a developer of all the >>> XML clutter? Or do you envision GUI-based development tools for this >>> (really

Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design - sites, hosts, and URLs oh my

2007-12-06 Thread Reed Hedges
Karsten Otto wrote: > Ok, I see. But this implies there could be more servers than just > one, each hosting a replica. Which one do I contact for updates? With > VOP/VIP URLs this was straightforward, but please remind me again, > how do I contact a vos:0011223344... key-based site? Is there

Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design

2007-12-06 Thread Reed Hedges
I don't know about Karsten, but the reason I have a knee-jerk reaction against suffixes like "Wrapper" is that it just feels like cruft, based on other systems where the word had no consistent meaning, at least from a user's perspective, it just seemed a hack to extend an API or facilitate its

Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design

2007-12-06 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:50:04PM +0100, Karsten Otto wrote: > Why all the indirections? Wouldn't it be enough to put one or more > lines of the kind > > (port and protocol being opzional) into the site replica document? It > *is* a signed document already, isn't it? > So if you already got

Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design

2007-12-06 Thread Karsten Otto
Am 06.12.2007 um 16:02 schrieb Peter Amstutz: > To answer your question, yes, this requires some way of mapping > identifiers to network addresses. My original idea was that the site > issues a signed document listing one or more hosts ids that are > authorized for that site, and the host issues

Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design

2007-12-06 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:11:31AM +0100, Karsten Otto wrote: > Ok, I see. But this implies there could be more servers than just > one, each hosting a replica. Which one do I contact for updates? With > VOP/VIP URLs this was straightforward, but please remind me again, > how do I contact a

Re: [vos-d] s5 progress and design

2007-12-06 Thread Karsten Otto
Am 05.12.2007 um 22:13 schrieb Peter Amstutz: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:43:47AM +0100, Karsten Otto wrote: >> Hi Peter, some questions/comments from the top of my head: >> >> What does importReplica() imply exactly? Is this just loading a local >> copy, or does it include contactig the remote s