On Monday 13 July 2009, Stefan Schubert wrote:

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here is a short description how this plugin works and how it can be installed/configured. I have also attached a screen shot which shows the current state of development.

http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Web/Development#System_Monitoring_module

This looks great.

One question: There are tags of the form

<value> <T_1246980970>1.2596666368e+09</T_1246980970> </value>

What are the T_* tags meant to mean? Is this a time stamp? In this case it would probably be better to make in an attribute of the value element and use the ISO format to make it more readable. The T_* tags are unix timestamps. It is possible to request a time

Am Mon 13 Jul 2009 02:36:48 PM CEST schrieb Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de>: period and therefor several times (and values) inside of one value tag. But I would be happy about a nicer solution, I just didn't figured out how it could work.

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Cornelius Schumacher schrieb:

On Monday 13 July 2009, Björn Geuken wrote:

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The T_* tags are unix timestamps. It is possible to request a time period and therefor several times (and values) inside of one value tag. But I would be happy about a nicer solution, I just didn't figured out how it could work.

If there is data in the tag itself it makes parsing a bit harder. So I would suggest to just use a series of value tags with the datetime as attribute:

<value dateTime="2009-07-13T18:01Z">8.9377540389e+08</value> <value dateTime="2009-07-14T18:01Z">9.9377540389e+08</value>

Thank you for the suggestion. We will change it :-) Greetings Stefan -- ******************************************************************************* Stefan Schubert SUSE LINUX GmbH - Maxfeldstrasse 5 - D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: schubi@suse.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Klaus Kaempf wrote:

* Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de> [Jul 13. 2009 18:03]:

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If there is data in the tag itself it makes parsing a bit harder. So I would suggest to just use a series of value tags with the datetime as attribute:

<value dateTime="2009-07-13T18:01Z">8.9377540389e+08</value> <value dateTime="2009-07-14T18:01Z">9.9377540389e+08</value>

This raises the general question if XML and REST are good encapsulations for such data. I very much doubt it.

The resource should be used to configure and manage the monitoring service. Transfering (possibly) huge amounts of data should be done by other means.

This shouldn't be a general problem. To reduce the amount of data, it can be compressed. It's possible to do this transparently. Or it could be transferred in an alternative format like JSON or something else which is more efficient. -- Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org