perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> I can imagine different values for eventType being used for different 
> types of tests. For example, if the eventType says 'checkDatabase' or 
> 'fullHealthCheck' or something like that, the service could make more 
> effort in checking various components. If the eventType says 'simple' or 
> maybe no eventType at all, the service could simply give a response. 
> These checks could be defined of course. But again, this is for the 
> future (if we ever find time to work on this)
>
> Regardless of that, not caring about the eventType sounds like a loose 
> implementation of the protocol. Tightening it up or at least defining 
> well might be required.

I absolutely agree. Please look at:

http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/Generalities

This has a description on what the eventType should look like. (I'm not 
suggesting it change for this release - but it does need to change to 
insure interoperability in the long-term.)

thanks,
jeff

> Michael Michalis wrote:
>
> > Hi Maciej, Roman,
> >
> >  
> >
> > I did some functional testing concerning the Echo request, and it 
> > seems that the services response with a success response code even if 
> > there are some problems with the event type element (wrong event type, 
> > element no present or with no value). Its not a big deal, but I 
> > thought it was best to report it J .
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >  
> >
> > Michalis Michael
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <nmwg:message xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/"; 
> > type="EchoRequest" id="id1">
> >      <nmwg:metadata id="meta" />
> >      <nmwg:data metadataIdRef="meta" id="data" />
> > </nmwg:message>
> >
> >   
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <nmwg:message xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/"; 
> > type="EchoRequest" id="id1">
> >      <nmwg:metadata id="meta">
> >           <nmwg:eventType />
> >      </nmwg:metadata>
> >      <nmwg:data metadataIdRef="meta" id="data" />
> > </nmwg:message>
> >
> >   
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <nmwg:message xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/"; 
> > type="EchoRequest" id="id1">
> >      <nmwg:metadata id="meta">
> >           <nmwg:eventType>1=1</nmwg:eventType>
> >      </nmwg:metadata>
> >      <nmwg:data metadataIdRef="meta" id="data" />
> > </nmwg:message>
> >
> >