Re: xPL announcement/description protocol -- was xPLDiag

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good idea - I'd forgotten about those.  The only potential pitfall is
that these files are often missing or out of date (especially with new
users) - the diagnostic tool will have to include a check for them as
part of its tests.

Mal


John B wrote:

> Hi Gerry,
>
> The concept sounds good - I like the idea of extending hbeat/app
schemas
> rather than creating a new one.
>
> > There would be more to discuss on this including what items
> > specifically should be included  with a
"request_details" (or
> > at least what is the menu of known items that can be used by
> > a device -- devices may reply with a subset of those items)
>
> Why not use the vendor XML files for the more verbose information.
> E.g. for Mal's W800 app, things like the version number could be
> included in the hbeat.app messages, but things like the description,
URL
> etc. could be stored in Mal's XML document.
>
> That way all a client needs to do is cross-reference the vendor-device
> part of the source against the XML file to grab a whole load of
> information - and there's no impact on the network in terms of huge
xPL
> messages going round.
>
> There is already a well-defined common storage location for vendor XML
> files on Windows systems - I see no reason why we couldn't develop
> something similar for other platforms, as the XML files seem like an
> ideal place to store textual information about a device that isn't
going
> to change often.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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