[Opensim-dev] New Asset/Inventory server

[Lc]

Thanks Mike for your system.

Does CB able to split the asset/inventory database on differents servers ?

Sacha


On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Mike Mazur <mmazur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In SVN r8407-8435 you will find the new Asset/Inventory server in the
> OpenSim trunk. I don't recommend using any revision between 8407-8435,
> they will likely not compile.
>
> If you want to jump in and use it right away, here's how:
>
> 1. Compile as usual
> 2. Copy bin/AssetInventoryServer.ini.example to
>   bin/AssetInventoryServer.ini and edit it accordingly
> 3. Instead of running OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer.exe, run
>   OpenSim.Grid.AssetInventoryServer.exe
> 4. Use at your own risk, there may still be bugs
>
> Hopefully the AssetInventoryServer.ini.example file has clear enough
> comments to answer most configuration questions.
>
> Also, please note that the inventory portion is, for all intents and
> purposes, *not implemented*. Please read on for more details.
>
> What is Currently Implemented
>
> Currently the AssetInventoryServer can be used as a drop-in replacement
> for the existing AssetServer. No configuration changes are needed to
> the rest of the grid servers.
>
> In addition to that there are a handful of plugins included that
> provide additional functionality, such as browsing the assets via your
> web browser. Actually, the code is there, but it's not "turned on",
> which brings us to the next section...
>
> The plugin system was converted from ExtensionLoader to Mono.Addins.
>
> What is Missing
>
> There are a few things I commented out in the interest of getting the
> code into core:
>
> - Cookie & SSL support is commented out until the HttpServer in OpenSim
>  supports these features. If it already does, then it should be easy
>  to turn those features on again.
> - Regex HTTP handlers. Some of the frontends[1][2] support HTTP
>  handlers defined as regular expressions to match a UUID. As far as I
>  could tell this didn't work with the HTTP server in OpenSim.
> - The AssetStorage plugins provide a ForEach() method that iterates
>  over a set of assets. See OpenSimAssetStorage[3] for an example. This
>  used SQL that's not currently implemented in OpenSim's storage
>  backends, so it's commented out.
> - Some of the extensions in the Cable Beach SVN[4] are also not
>  included, such as the OpenID authentication and Amazon S3 or Memcached
>  storage backends.
>
> These missing features can be supported once the underlying
> infrastructure in OpenSim (HttpServer, DB storage) support the features
> they require.
>
> Also the Inventory section is completely commented out. This is because
> there's a larger number of functions to map to the existing inventory
> storage than with assets; there are only two asset operations (fetch
> and create), while there are many with inventory (fetch item, folder,
> folder and contents, create item, folder, delete item, folder etc).
> These can be implemented over time.
>
> To Wrap Up
>
> Thanks to John Hurliman and all the other contributors for their work
> on Cable Beach.
>
> Please test, give feedback, file bugs (if you must) and have fun!
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> [1]
>
> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/OpenSim/Grid/AssetInventoryServer/Plugins/ReferenceFrontendPlugin.cs?revision=8435&view=markup&pathrev=8435#l_105
> [2]
>
> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/OpenSim/Grid/AssetInventoryServer/Plugins/BrowseFrontendPlugin.cs?revision=8435&view=markup&pathrev=8435#l_101
> [3]
>
> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/OpenSim/Grid/AssetInventoryServer/Plugins/OpenSim/OpenSimAssetStoragePlugin.cs?revision=8435&view=markup&pathrev=8435#l_116
> [4]
>
> http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/assetserver/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2FAssetServer%2FExtensions%2F
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