Re: [Tcllib-devel] Name server (RE: A proposed new package ... Asking for comments.)

[Michael S. <sc...@un...>]

Andreas Kupries schrieb:
> One of the services I wanted to put into Tcllib, based on the 'safe' comm
> foundation
> is the primitive nameserver I did years ago, see
> 
> 	http://www.oche.de/~akupries/soft/pool/f_net_ns_server.tcl.html
> 
> Except when I started the docs/spec for the new implementation I found myself
> quickly on the road to complexity, because of a number of questions I came up
> with in need answers ... For now the doc/spec is quite incomplete and actually
> more a set of notes I started to make to organize my thoughts and get something
> coherent out of of whatever notions are tumbling through my subconscious.

Keep it basically simple. What would be the main usecase? comm services
which need to detect each other?

> 
> 	Actually, before writing the last sentence, a different
> 	thought bubbled up out of my subconscious, that I am
> 	apparently re-inventing LDAP, where the stored records have
> 	complex structure with many keyes, attributes, possibly
> 	nesting, and can be searched for by any component. That made
> 	me realize that my questions had put me really well on the
> 	road to higher complexity.

Your basically not only solving similar problems to LDAP/X.500, you also
dabble in the field of UDDI
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Description_Discovery_and_Integration)
or even the naming conventions/name discovery used by things like DBUS
or Apples Bonjour/Rendevouzs.


> 	Still. What would we use in the Tcl world as records ? My
> 	guess would be nested dictionaries.

Yes to nested dictionaries for storing the records.

Michael