[Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

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It's not just a name change; the interface has changed too, it's much 
cleaner. ("login_to_simulator" still exists, obviously -- that's the 
method called by the LL client, it's a method of the LLLogin service)

Once we're done with this refactoring, all (well, most...) network 
handlers will be explicitly visible in OpenSim.Server.Handlers. That's 
one of the major goals for what we're doing here, to have some order / 
standardization in the code. Looking at that namespace, it will be very 
clear what it is that OpenSim servers respond to.

With ROBUST, the difference between simulator server and other servers 
is blurred, though. It's up to the people who configure the system to 
decide which servers load which handlers and the corresponding services.

Impalah Shenzhou wrote:
> Will be only a name change from "messaging" to "presence" or some of the 
> rest/xml methods of the messaging server will pass to another server or 
> will dissapear? (for example "presence_info_bulk" or "login_to_simulator")
> 
> And another question, if anyone knows, is there any UPDATED list (at 
> least for version 0.6.5 and higher) of the public methods published by 
> the ugaim/robust servers or, even better, used by the region servers? 
> The one on the wiki is oooooooold and incomplete.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 2010/1/4 Cristina Videira Lopes <lopes at ics.uci.edu 
> <mailto:lopes at ics.uci.edu>>
> 
> 
>     On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> 
>      >
>      > Could I ask what is being done about the message service?  This is
>      > still in its pre-ROBUST form and
>      > I don't think that we can tag 0.7 without converting this service.
> 
>     Simple: the messaging server will disappear :)
>     It was never a messaging server in the first place. It was a presence
>     server wannabe: it was only there to track the location of agents.
>     Messaging itself is p2p, not centralized. Yeah, another one of the
>     early misnomers that led to generalized confusion :)
> 
>     The IM region module that does the p2p IM-ing will stay more or less
>     unchanged, except that it queries the new presence service instead.
>     Mel and I had a conversation yesterday about making the p2p connectors/
>     handlers in it explicit and visible out of the Region namespace like
>     all other connectors/handlers, but she convinced me that we shouldn't
>     touch it until we're ready to rewrite it completely. Probably won't
>     happen for 0.7.
> 
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