[Opensim-dev] Standardizing OpenSim data formats

[Stefan Andersson]

John,

great initiative, great work.

Could we move away from 'uuid' as identifier for resources (users, assets, inventory) and instead use 'string' on a protocol level? As we're trying to move towards that in the code and database, I think having it already in the protocols would be one less obstacle.

Best regards,
Stefan Andersson




> From: john.hurliman at intel.com
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:32:12 -0600
> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Standardizing OpenSim data formats
> 
> Currently, OpenSim server<->server communication is primarily made up of .NET XML serialization. As a side effect of this, I've seen the wire format between simulator and grid services or grid service to grid service change many times since I started working on backend services. The OAR file format has also changed at least once while retaining the same version number because the underlying prim XML format changed. I am working on a libomv OAR reader/writer at the moment, and trying to deal with hacks for supporting pre and post change OAR files.
> 
> To increase compatibility between versions of OpenSim and with third party services I'd like to propose a standardization of (eventually) all over-the-wire communication in OpenSim. I started with an attempt at an LLIDL definition for primitives:
> 
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/PrimitiveFormatProposal
> 
> Is anything missing? Does this look like a reasonable start?
> 
> John 
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