[Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Fri Apr 23 13:52:19 EDT 2010


On 23 April 2010 12:54, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> OK, no problem.
>> Just curious though, whats the justification behind this? is there an
>> existing project that runs in this way?
>> The single file model just doesn't seem so scalable.
>
> Thanks!  If we have a utility script that splits up such a file, I am happy.
>
> From the PoV of the programmers of the inventory systems we interop
> with, the simplest thing is to export a single file. That is what I
> want to ask from inventory backends.
>
> A single file simplifies little corner cases like "what when a school
> disappears / stops having XOs ?" (empty file? file removal?).
>
> There are number of such corner cases, and  by putting them clearly on
> our side of the interoperability we make them our problem, and we can
> work to make sure we handle them correctly.

OK, I pushed our work to git along with a README.delegation, comments
appreciated.

Daniel


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