[mythtv] MythSOAP Expressions Of Interest

[Brad Templeton]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:14:18PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> everything much more complicated than it really needs to be.  If there's a 
> more standard system available that can replace the existing backend 
> protocol, I'm all for switching to that.

There are several RPC systems -- SOAP, Corba, DCOM (microsoft), XML-RPC and
some older ones and some that are more specific to certain languages
like C++.

Your intuition is right that these protocols often start simple but
get bloated the more people want features on them.   In fact, XML-RPC
was started in reaction to SOAP getting far from "Simple" as I recall.

And then there are the non-RPC asynchronous message protocols but
you may or may not need async messaging.

Rolling your own protocol is of course always a risk (though I've
done it myself a few times.)  Your protocol is pretty simple, I banged
together a not very robust perl implmentation in an hour or so which
I posted a link to here yesterday.   But having to do custom object
serializers/deserializers is a pain of course.

The big plus of a standard protocol of course is that people can rapidly
write clients in a wide variety of languages, and the robustness of
the protocol and libraries are somebody else's problem.  The main
downside is bulk.