[Kde-silk] Re: Share "Web services" code using KJob's

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday, January 8, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote:
> By doing this code organization, we can share code between applications
> in an easy way, for example, if we had all KJob-ified right now, we
> would be able to unify and use other's implementations:

in libplasma we have the idea of Service. this is indeed KJob based but adds a 
few "nice things" to it to unify a set of procedure calls into the idea of a 
Service. it is re-usable (supports plugins, for instance), Plasma::DataEngine 
integrates with it as well and we even use it for things like communicating 
between DataEngines P2P style over the network.

a Plasma::Service also supports using a KConfigXt file to define the service, 
which automatically gives us a bunch of metadata and could even allow for 
datatype checking (e.g. correct types, min/max on numbers, etc) though that 
hasn't been implemented yet.

custom Services do not need to use a KConfigXt file on disk, though 
Plasma::Service is based around defining the services using that XML format.

i'd be interested in making Plasma::Service work with what you come up with or 
even using Plasma::Service as the basis for your work, extending and improving 
it as needed.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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