Hi all, Michael, I can't help with this but it would be great to have a report about the state of OT and CC. Looking forward to it
D Il giorno 27/dic/2011 17:24, "Michael MacFadden" < [email protected]> ha scritto: > All, > > I have been trying to dig in to the CC and OT concept in wave, so I can > start to work on that section of the code. It seems like we have been > focusing on the UI and I want to make sure we have coverage in the CC > stack. I have read all of the OT literature, so I am fairly well versed in > OT in general, but some of the specifics of the WaiB implementation are a > little fuzzy. > > Right now I am working on understanding composition and how we infer the > servers path. I have a few questions. > > 1) In order to compose operations I assume they don't have to have the > same document width (how could they for successive inserts for example), > but I assume they would need to span the same line? Is that right? In > other words you wouldn't compose operations from one paragraph with > operations from another? Is the desire to compose one of the driving > reasons for the retain operation? > > > 2) When we send out "first" operation over to the server and we are in a > holding pattern buffering client operations, are these operations always > composed together and then sent over as a single operation when we get the > ACK from the server. It seems like we can only send one operation to the > server at a time, however the on line material implies that when we get and > ACK we send over ALL buffered operations. This seems to be contradictory. > If we have buffered 4 operations, it seems like we can send all of them as > four individual operations. > > > 3) Is there a run down of how the CurrencyControl class does point #2 > anywhere. I see the unacknowledged, the inferredServerPath, and the > clientOperationsQueue objects and get a lose impression of how these are > managed but any help with regard to incoming server operations while we > have an operation in flight would be appreciated. Specifically what > transformations are performed on which object structures when we get a new > operation form there server, and where / when is composition happening. > > > 4) How exactly are the hashed versions designed? There seems to be a > monotonic scalar version number and a hash? I want to make sure I > understand how both are generated and how both are used. > > > If any of this is well documented, please let me know where I could find > it. If it is not, I would volunteer to document this as I work through it. > Thanks in advance. > > Michael
