[mythtv] MythSOAP Expressions Of Interest

[Tako Schotanus]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Sunday 20 February 2005 06:52 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>bill peck wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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You don't need the backend running for just about everything right now? 
There might be some tools that don't need a connection to the backend 
but as far as I see it they could still continue to do so, access to the 
database server would not be prevented. But it would give other frontend 
applications a way to get at all the possible information using a single 
point-of-entry.

>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.  
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I tend to agree with you here. I myself have been looking for some time 
now at the DBus project (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdbus) 
which is a very light-weight IPC message bus. The problem so far has 
been the lack of finished QT bindings.

-Tako