perfsonar development work

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Jeff W. Boote написа:
> Jason Zurawski wrote:
>>> So I'm not against want you prefer but I allow to use also only a
>>> key as a container for all stuff where the order is not important.
>>
>>
>> It would be far less ambiguous to alway assume order matters, this
>> will cut down on corner and special cases.  Like I said previously,
>> this isn't an issue yet but it will be as more complex services come
>> online it will be.  For the short term this just needs to be a 'think
>> about it' task, but after things calm down it should be examined
>> again in detail.
>
> Specifically, this is causing our SNMP service some compatibility
> problems with pS-UI because it does not look through the entire chain
> of metadata. It assumes it can use the first one. (In fact, I don't
> think it even expects a chain at all.)
PerfsonarUI looks for metadata/data pairs, but doesn't support metadata
chaining yet.  However, we are planning to implement it ASAP.

Regards,
Nina

>
> We plan on bringing this up with Nina in the long-term, but in the
> short term we have been trying to figure out how to support both methods.
>
> jeff

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