Re: QueryContext 'id' in CluePackets?

[Alex Graveley <agraveley starbak net>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 13:36, DJ Adams wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:28:35PM -0400, Alex Graveley wrote:
> > 
> > I am thinking a better approach would be to have backends specify the
> > cluetypes they know how to handle at initialize time.  Then at
> > processing time, the cpm can pass only cluepackets containing something
> > a backend is "interested" in.  
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts, first of all.
> 
> But this is a different issue (sending clues of a certain type only,
> as opposed to minimising the repeated sending of the same clues).

Not really.  If the cpm knows what a backend is interested in, it won't
resend the cluepacket unless something of interest has changed, which
will solve the problem you mentioned.

> Regarding the point that you raise, I personally I don't see what's wrong
> with the current model of having the backends passing (return null) on
> clue types they don't want to handle. This is the same model that is used
> in building Jabber components for example, and the approach works well
> there. 

Does jabber have the same concept and usage pattern as dashboard with
regard to injecting new information to annotate/specialize the source
information?

-Alex