[mythtv-users] Notice to Schedules Direct users

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:16 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> ....
>> WOW WOW WOW so much FUD
>>
>> The JSON grabber does NOT add any columns to ANY table.
>
>  ....
>
>> NO schemas will be broken by using the JSON grabber.
>
> I can understand that SD may not have experienced
> enterprise/data/database architects available to you
> in order to review your designs.  However, adding a
> table to an existing database that you do not "own"
> DOES break the schema for the application.  Some
> applications may happen to tolerate such breakage
> (and others not so much), but it unconscionable for
> a third party to depend on that tolerance.  And that
> is what an experienced architecture review would
> have identified.  And that is why the code was a
> good/interesting proof of concept, which demonstrated
> some important capabilities, and also why it was not
> appropriate for moving into production as is.
>
> Gary

As the lead developer on a commercial database centric product, I
couldn't agree more.

As far as the JSON service in general, it seems like it has nice
features and would be nice once officially supported.  However if that
support couldn't reuse existing channels and required all the source
and channel deletion that's been talked about (a requirement that
still doesn't make sense to me) I probably wouldn't go near it unless
it was a necessity for some reason.

Tom