On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:03 +1100, Brett Nash wrote: > Splitting this, so hopefully we can pare the issues down quickly ;-) > > > Another thing is that I feel that the difference list is a little bit > > underspecified. Are duplicate ids allowed in the difference list? Is there > > a > > limit to the list? > > Limit to length: > Size limit of messages... Needs to support continued lists in the > strange case the list if too long.
The difference lists are retrieved in the same way other id sequences. This means that a client is able to request them in chunks and is already able to get lists which are effectively infinite long. > Duplicates: > Absolutely not. Else it allows lists to contain thousands of duplicate > entries. List should be just the list of things that have changed. See my reasoning about this in the other email. Tim 'Mithro' Ansell _______________________________________________ tp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/mailman.php/listinfo/tp-devel
