Re: [xmlblaster] implementing query in addition to publish / subscribe

[laghi at swissinfo.org]

Hallo Michael,
if you want to make a request synchroneously then "get" is the correct choice.


If the kind of query would be of lets say the kind:

a) "Give me back the last 5 messages of a particular topic" or 
b) "give me all messages since Christmas for a given topic"

It is what we call history queue queries, that is, queries regarding a specific
topic (a specific msg oid). These are on our high priority list and will
be implemented as a plugin. Fore more exotic queries one can then write
a more specific plugin.

For case a) there is already a way of doing it. See the requirement: http://www.xmlBlaster.org/xmlBlaster/doc/requirements/interface.subscribe.html
for an example or have a look at HelloWorldSubscribe.


Cheers
Michele


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:23:29 -0500
>From: Michael Atighetchi <matighet at bbn.com>
>To: xmlblaster at server.xmlblaster.org
>Subject: Re: [xmlblaster] implementing query in addition to publish / subscribe
>Reply-To: xmlblaster at server.xmlBlaster.org
>
>
>It seems the get method is doing exactly what I want
>synchronously. I'll investigate wheather this will do for our use case.
>
>Michael
>
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:10:45PM -0500, Michael Atighetchi wrote:
>> How difficult would it be to enhance xmlblaster to deal with query
>> operations in addition to publish & subscribe ?
>> 
>> The query operation would be very similar (ie allow xpath
>> and regex matching) to a time-limited subscribe operation that only
>> returns the current set of messages known to xmlblaster and the
>> terminates.
>> 
>> It could probably be implemented using direct JDBC calls, however, I
>> would prefer an implementation that goes through xmlblaster utilizing
>> the parsed messages in the DOM.
>> 
>> Anyone has ideas about how to best approach this ?
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>
>-- 
>matighet at bbn.com   BBN Technologies
>




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