[Flamerobin-devel] Services and databases

[Milan B. <albis@EUnet.yu>]

Hi all,

I have a little dilemma about services and databases. On user privileges 
page, we want to display all users (even those who don't have any 
privilege) on the screen, so rights can be initially granted to them. 
However, we cannot get that info from database. We can get it from 
IBPP::Service via ListUsers() function. So, we would need to somehow 
connect these two.

The question is: How?

Perhaps show a drop-down list of registered services on database 
registration dialog, and let user pick one? It could be a little awkward.

This is the one place where the old (current) server/database idea seem 
to work better. I'm not saying that we should keep it, but we have to 
solve problems like this.

The same problem exists for backup/restore. We need to know the server 
name, in order to connect and backup databases.

Perhaps this should be another feature request for IBPP, so we don't try 
to get too smart while trying to determine server from database path 
(I'm not implying it is impossible).

Unless we find some good idea, I'm going to starting working on Visitor 
pattern and main menu stuff first, and leave the whole server/database 
reorganization stuff for later.

-- 
Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org