[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Getting there -- bootstrapping OpenSRF Client problem

[Nathan Eady]

Mike Rylander wrote:

> It just happened that way.

I see.

>> If the latter, would it be good at some point to get the Perl
>> services to read from the XML config file?
> 
> That's on the roadmap, for sure.
> 
>> That sounds like something that could be done by someone who
>> speaks Perl but is not very familiar with the codebase yet...
> 
> And that sounds as much like an offer as we'll ever get! ;)

It might be.  I don't know how quickly I can get something done,
but I'll put it on my radar.  Because, as a long-term goal I'd
like to become familiar with this codebase, and to do that I've
got to start someplace.

> You can take a look at http://ln-s.net/GZs (Web CVS repo) to see what
> we're doing now. 

Oh, good, it's gathered in one file, the reading, the writing,
and the API all in one place.  That's helpful.

I will have a more detailed look at it, once I get stuff installed
on my workstation.  (I did an anon CVS checkout, but I don't seem
to see the file opensrf_core.xml, so I imagine it is probably
created at install time.  I will of course need to have a look at
its structure if I'm going to implement an interface to it.  I
wanted to have an installation to play around with anyway, so I'm
installing the dependency bundles now...)

 > We'll need to keep things API compatible since we use the
 > O::U::Config interface extensively in the perl innards, but
 > it's certainly doable, I think.

I don't suppose there's already a test suite for the Config API?
If not, is there a preferred test framework (e.g., Test::More or
whatever)?

> We already use XML::LibXML in the perl stuff, so that's the
> natural/prefered choice for the XML parser, but we do have a
> dependancy on XML::Simple for some outlying pieces, so if that
> simplifies things then it would be acceptable as well.

I will look at these, especially the former.  Most of my Perl/XML
experience up to now has been with XML::Twig, but it never hurts to
add a tool to my toolbox.