perfsonar development work

[maxim <>]

Hi Loukik,
This requirement comes from my strong believe that messaging data format
should
be consistent throughout the whole perfSONAR framework. Its really strange
and confusing
to support different kinds of time format under the same namespace and same
schema but
for different applications. If schema allows one to use ISO or Unix time
format then 
this capability must be supported everywhere. If only Unix time format is
supported then
it should be documented and again supported everywhere. Otherwise it will
create a big mess.
That's specifically true in service oriented environment where every service
should be 
available ant interoperable with other services from the same framework.
Thanks,
         Maxim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loukik Kudarimoti 
> [mailto:]
>  
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:29 AM
> To: maxim
> Cc: 'Asif, Mohammad'; 'Maciej Glowiak'; 'Roman Lapacz'; 
> ;
>  'Li, Yee-Ting'; 'Nicolas Simar'
> Subject: Re: [pS-dev] Problem with SQL-MA!! Support for ISO 
> timestamp format ?
> 
> maxim wrote:
> >  Hi Loukik,
> > I was testing my SQL MA with L2 status store data requests and I;ve 
> > found that it does not support this kind of time format  
> <ifevt:datum 
> > timeType="ISO"
> > timeValue="2007-01-16T22:25:00.0-6:00"> ???
> > Why is that ( taking in account that E2E MP supports this 
> format ) ???
> > Thanks,
> >            Maxim
> >
> >   
> Hi Maxim,
> 
> I can't think of a strong reason for only supporting unix 
> time formats and not multiple time formats. Surely, we can 
> treat this as a feature request and try to extend the SQL MA 
> to support this feature.
> 
> Before filing a feature request in our bugzilla, I would like 
> to know how serious is this requirement? How have you been 
> affected by it? (I am aware that the e2eMon visualisation 
> tools work with the SQL MA without any problem so they must 
> be supporting both formats)
> 
> thanks,
> Loukik.
>