I did mention in my initial posting Cederville's DOWNLOAD Which extracts data *from* Universe. It would be counter-intuitive to call a system which loads data *into* Universe also a Download. Rather it must be called an Upload.
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Gravagno <3xk547...@sneakemail.com> To: u2-users <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 12:23 pm Subject: Re: [U2] UPLOAD not DOWNLOAD Well, what you say below is exactly opposite of what I described. Normally I would encourage anyone else to re-read what I wrote and cite specific text which leads to the conclusions below - in this case... nah. The data source never needs to know anything about the target - that would be silly. And no, I didn't describe a process that "goes the wrong way" - you said "*into* Universe (not out from it)" which is what I described. Perhaps what confused you is that the code for going in both directions looks exactly the same - which is one of the neat aspects of the approach. BTW, someone might suggest from my code that the retrieval from the source is done in bulk while posting to the U2 target seems to be done with individual transactions. That could be the case and for large loads I'd modify the code to aggregate the data into a collection and then post that to U2 in a single transaction. BTW, the terms UPload and DOWNload are hugely ambiguous, and I believe you have defined the terms backwards here. When I download to my PC, it is TO my PC, not away from it. When I upload to a web server, the data is moving out. And yet you define "UPLOAD not DOWNLOAD" as meaning "*into* Universe (not out from it)". The terms IMport and EXport are more explicit. Your reference to the Cedarville Download utility is a clue to the confusion. Cedarville is using Download in the context of the recipient of the information downloading information to a more familiar format from the Unidata server. From the perspective of everyone in this group, that would be an Export, and going in the opposite direction would be an Import. So what you're describing is an Import into U2 ... traditionally described as a download. T > From: Wjhonson > > That goes the wrong way. > Download does not depend on knowing who is consuming what to > create it's results. > > So Upload should not need to have interactive consumption details > either. > That's my take. > > It's reads a source and decides on its own without the sources > assistance where to put what. > > You're coming at it more from a point of view of both sides *agreeing* > on what data is in what position. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
