[Tech] Fcp woes II

[Matthew Toseland]

On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:25, juergen urner wrote:
> There is no distinction between ClientPutDiskDir and ClientPutComplexDir
> in PersistentPut*. This makes it hard to tell both apart. I need this to 
> do automatic
> type conversions.

We can make a distinction if we need to, however there really isn't much 
difference, ClientPutDiskDir is just a simple way to access the same 
functionality, any ClientPutDiskDir can be expressed as a ClientPutComplexDir 
if need be.
> 
> Just thinking aloud ..I wish ClientPut* (PersistentPut*) would go. 
> Afaics a new message
> would make live much easier on both sides. Any thoughts?
> 
> Put
>     Identifer=any
>     NItems=N
>     Persistence=whatever
>     (...)
> EndMessage
> 
> ...emidiately followed by N items to put
> 
> DataItem
>     DataLength=N
>     Name=any
>     (...)
> EndMessage
> FileItem
>     Filename=filename
>     Name=any
>      (...)
> EndMessage
> (...)

Why is this better?
> 
> Btw, on input Fcp does not seem to care if Files.N.* in ClientPutComplexDir
> start at 0. This broke persistents.

You mean it expects it to start at 0? Or what?
> 
> Juergen
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