irmis-devel Mailing List for IRMIS

Hi all,

 

Merry Christmas! Happy new Year! Hope you are enjoying the holidays (if
you have them)! Time for a new release:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/irmis/
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/irmis/> 

 

No work on the database side, but we finally included the database
schema as part of the documentation. On the service I completed the
support for cable bundles.

 

Most of the work went into the GUIs. Fixed a few minor problems with the
current applications based on the feedback received by users (e.g.
display functions/interfaces in alphabetical order in the component type
editor, allow to use the right tree as a reparenting child in the
component editor, etc...). But most of the work is going into the new
cable editor, to allow editing large number of cables easy.

 

Another feature that is partially implemented, and will work on to
extend next month, is the ability to reference newly created objects
within the same transaction. For example:

 

<transaction xmlns="http://xml.bnl.gov/schema/irmis">

    <create>

        <cableBundle cableCount="10" bundleLabel="bundleTest-1155484576"
cableTypeId="1" id="-2">

            <partition partitionTypeId="1" componentId="2"/>

        </cableBundle>

    </create>

    <connect>

        <cable cableTypeId="1" cableBundleId="-2" componentBId="16"
portBId="22" componentAId="10" portAId="11"
label="bundleTest-1155484576"/>

    </connect>

</transaction>

 

The first part creates a cableBundle and the second part connects a new
cable within that bundle. The idea is that by giving a negative number
for id at cableBundle creation, one can then use that same negative
number to reference the cableBundle later. I intend to extend this to
any entity type in any transaction element. This will, for example,
avoid the double trip that is currently needed when creating a set of
components (first you need to create them, then you need to establish
the relationships since you need the id to create references). It should
not only improve performance, but also avoid residual garbage in case of
problems.

 

Full change log is available on Trac at:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/irmis/query?status=closed&group=compone
nt&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col
=component&col=version&milestone=3.0.14-alpha%20(r1211)
<http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/irmis/query?status=closed&group=compon
ent&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&co
l=component&col=version&milestone=3.0.14-alpha%20(r1211)> 

 

Gabriele