[mythtv] MythSOAP Expressions Of Interest

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 20 February 2005 06:52 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> bill peck wrote:
> >While I do think SOAP would be handy I would settle for program guide
> >data being available over the current Myth Protocol instead of having
> >to do SQL calls.
>
> This type of increased independence of the frontend was something I had
> mentioned to Isaac as a point of interest to me.  Not specifically for
> SOAP, but having more functions in the protocol would lend itself to
> improving such an effort just as it could have a positive effect on the
> MediaMVP work, etc.  He wasn't against it but noted that currently only
> the functions required to be done on the backend are done there.  Not
> sure when I might have time to visit this, but it is something I'd like
> to work on as well.

Right - this would move to _requiring_ the backend to be running for 
everything.  It's not now, and I don't know if I'm happy with that additional 
requirement.

Additionally, my concern is that SOAP (like anything using XML) adds a lot of 
size + parsing complexity to what needs to be a lightweight system if it's 
going to be used for all message passing between processes.  

Isaac