Re: Improving API for lists, or wildcarded schemas

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:59, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I take it you're not keen on my other idea about making it easier to
> access individual items in a list?

Well, I'd be concerned about the efficiency; what if someone iterates
over a list with a network round trip for each item?

There's also some implementation complexity I imagine.

An argument for it though is that getting, modifying, and resetting a
list is current not an atomic operation, to avoid races you really need
a way to make an "append to list" or "insert into list" request.

Havoc