[Opensim-dev] ConsoleClient -pass option

[Dr Scofield]

Dickson, Mike (ISS Software) wrote:
> Ok, after a tour through the REST console code as best as I can tell it
> *looks* like all your REST console does is wrap cli commands in XML and ship
> messages back and forth. I guess that sort of band-aids the need for a
> console remotely but there are whole sets of things that don't work.  For
> instance if I want to do a "load oar" command how does the oar file get to
> the server and where does it need to live to get found?  If I need to do some
> sort of out of band mechanism to achieve that how does that translate to a
> fully functional console?
> 
> In a case like this where I *personally* want a truly remote management
> interface for a server I'd strongly prefer a set of well documented remotely
> callable functions.  They should fully capture the semantics for the
> operations involved (i.e. the load oar "function" specifies how the oar file
> is transported over the wire) so the interface is truly remotable.   If you
> had that you could still implement a text based local console over the
> implementation interface but at least what remotely managing the server means
> is well defined.  And programming against it means using a straightforward
> RPC call vs. XML mangling.

i've to agree on that. i'd started something like that, but haven't really made
any headway due to lack of time. being a pythonista i tend to look at things
through python glasses: invoking an XmlRpc method is easy, doing the same thing
with REST is a pain.

	cheers,
	DrS/dirk

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