perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

Roman Lapacz wrote:
> 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 ) ???
> >   
>
> Yes, SQL MA (and RRD MA as well) supports only unix time in the 
> messages. ISO type is supported on the database level (see db schema for 
> L2 path status).

To be clear, I think we realize this is something that eventually needs to be 
supported. (Otherwise interoperability will not be there.)

But, as Roman said. It is not done yet.

jeff

P.S. I believe the easiest way to support this long-term is to have the nmwg 
Java objects enhanced to support reading multiple time formats. Then access 
methods for specific formats can be added to allow applications to read the time 
in the format that best suits them -- in this case a unix timestamp. But, the 
client should be able to specify the ISO format in the request. Also, the Java 
object would need a setting to specify which format to use in the toxml() method.