[Opensim-dev] ConsoleClient -pass option

[Melanie]

The difference in viewpoints is caused by a difference in objectives.
The REST console doesn't try to transfer oar files. It doesn't try 
to be a client that needs to be changed each time a functionality is 
added on the server.
It only tries to send command lines and retrieve responses. It 
doesn't want to know the background of each command. It just sends text.
There are people who need these features, and for those, the XMLRPC 
remote module exists. The REST console is just a console. Nothing 
more. It should not be made into anything more, either. As usual in 
OpenSim, both methods are available. Choose your poisom.

Melanie

Toni Alatalo wrote:
> Dr Scofield kirjoitti:
>>> 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
>>>     
>> 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.
>>   
> 
> Where is the pain with REST? Am just curious to learn more, have written 
> some REST servers and simple clients to them in Python, but used XML-RPC 
> and SOAP too. Haven't written complex REST clients (yet). Invoking a 
> method is of course trivial, just a http get, but does it get difficult 
> with parameters then?
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/python-rest-client/wiki/Using_Connection says:
> conn.request_post("/upload", body=body)
> 
> is it difficult to put a oar file in the body?
> 
> or are you talking about defining types, having the signatures of the 
> methods etc explicit in some interface description? Like with SOAP it 
> was kinda handy with soappy that what you get to py is normal objects 
> with functions with __doc__ about the parameter vals and return vals etc.
> 
>> 	DrS/dirk
>>   
> 
> ~Toni
> 
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