>> An issue about language neutrality. You have the method names of
>> the form;
>>
>> samp.hub.isAlive( )
>>
>> in the XML-RPC mapping of the Standard Profile. This is of course
>> very Java-centric.
>
> That's a bit harsh - you can't have a method name with a full stop
> in Java either.
Yes, alright, a bit harsh. I'd just got to the "oh no, more full stops" bit in the code.
> The intention is namespace delimitation, so if I'd had my (somewhat
> rusty) Perl head on when deciding this bit it would have looked
> something like Samp::Hub::isAlive(), which I suspect is still not a
> valid Perl method name.
It is, but not when called via XMLRPC.
> I always thought that Perl's quoting mechanisms were under-
> powered :-).
;)
> If I understand what you're talking about correctly, auto-dispatch
> is some kind of syntactic sugar - you're not saying that you can't
> make these XML-RPC invocations, just that those periods make it
> harder to write your entire hub implementation...
Yup it's syntactic sugar, but I've just managed to work round this in a semi-elegant way. Although language purists will throw up their hands in horror and throw ripe tomatoes from the roof tops when they see it I think...
> ...in a single line of Perl.
Hey! I resemble that remark.
Actually I'm being careful and doing a nice object orientated job of work (since I'm guessing there might actually be a market for this thing) as opposed to my PLASTIC code which has always been a bit on the hack and slash side of the fence (since I never got round to writing those base classes I always promised to do).
> As I say the intention is namespacing - the thinking being that you
> might want to run a single XML-RPC server which offers a SAMP hub
> or SAMP client (or both) along with some other completely unrelated
> services, and so it's good practice to avoid using XML-RPC
> methodNames which might be in use for some other purpose.
Makes sense...
> In practice - that's not very likely, so removing the namespacing
> altogether would probably not hurt.
Nooooo, but I can see why its this way. Is this going to cause problems elsewhere? I don't think so, but...
Al. Received on 2008-05-02Z00:24:10