[Opensim-dev] Proposal: notify clients when Robust changes a user's inventory

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Seems to me the solution to this issue is, if a simulator is HG enabled, to
create 'My Suitcase' folder structure when a user logs into the home
simulator.


On 14 March 2014 03:52, Mister Blue <misterblue at misterblue.com> wrote:

> The modern code pattern for this sort of thing is for there to be an
> underlying notification service (like MQTT, AWS/SNS, ...) and to build IM
> and server-to-server comms on top of that. A serious refactoring would be
> to rip out the existing push directed IM system and replace it with a
> pub/sub notification system that inventory change notifications, HGIMs, etc
> can be built on.
> -- mb
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>
>> I can see the justification for using IM server-side when what needs to
>> be communicated is intended to reach specific users who may be online.For
>> generic communications, we should not use IM. But for those specific cases,
>> locating the user is the hardest task of the process; IM already does that.
>> So I'm ok with doing it. As Oren says, refactoring this at some point would
>> be nice...
>>
>>
>> On 3/13/2014 8:30 PM, Oren Hurvitz wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, this would be stateless. If the user's client can't be found then
>>> the
>>> message would be dropped.
>>>
>>> The logic to find the user's client, especially in the presence of HG, is
>>> very complicated. I wouldn't want to replicate it, and of course we
>>> wouldn't
>>> want duplicate code. There are only two choices that don't involve code
>>> duplication: use IM as the transport for this message, or a big rewrite
>>> that
>>> would create a generic locate+transport communications system, and then
>>> run
>>> both IM and the new API over that communications system. Option #2 is an
>>> order of magnitude more complex than Option #1, and tbh I don't have the
>>> time to implement it. I can do Option #1 in such a way that it would be
>>> almost like a generic mechanism; so this change would only need to be
>>> done
>>> once, not over and over for each future message we may want to pass.
>>>
>>>
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