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  • From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] server-client split
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:34:32 +0000

Aloha,

With your clarifications below...

The server should/will implement any kind of search that clients and
users feel they need. This is definitely a server element because it
requires structural knowledge of the database.

There will be methods for free text as well as individual elements
such as height. Perhaps in the future we can develop a free text
search grammar that allows uses a lot of control without having to use
long forms that list all the various elements.

More or less exactly. Markup/format is the clients job whether it's
html/xml/text or what have you. It's possible to add an xml
middleware layer on top of the server to support clients that can't or
don't want to use xml-rpc. Keeping it seperated from the server would
be my preference.

...I think I grok what you're doing well enough to say it sounds good and modular and go for it.

The way I think about it is that you are just importing a package over
http. Crazy and cool. Not only that but you can write the server in
one language and use the methods in any other language that supports
xml-rpc!

Yeah, pretty nifty. Any 'gotchas' that you're aware of?

For example, when you say "importing a package over http" I assume you don't mean actually transferring the package modules (the files)...right?

cheers,
John S.

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