[Nepomuk] Nepomuk Service2

[Simeon Bird]

Hey Vishesh,

Cool! This sounds like an excellent idea - I'll add looking at the
code to my todo list :)

Simeon

On 10 March 2013 14:08, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:
> Hey Simeon
>
> I've been meaning to implement a Nepomuk::Service2 class which would serve
> as an upgrade from the normal Service class. Given the problems we were
> having with properly shutting down the storage service, I decided to
> implement it. It's currently in the feature/service2 branch in nepomuk-core.
>
> The main difference is that now each service installs its own process,
> instead of installing a library which is then loaded by the
> nepomukservicestub. This results in somewhat lighter processes, and it makes
> debugging a lot easier as we will no longer get reports that say
> "nepomukservicestub" is acting up.
>
> Additionally, it simplifies the entire parent child relationship for each
> service. Now each service is the top most parent QObject, and it is deleted
> after the QApplication::exec finishes. No more wacky static variables.
>
> Problems -
> 1. I've kinda broken the /servicecontrol name and description functions.
> Implementing this would require parsing the desktop files, which I still
> haven't done.
> 2. The nepomukservicestub used to catch interrupts and exit gracefully -
> This isn't the case any more. I'm not sure why.
>
> Do you think you could have a look at the code when you get some time?
> Please :)
>
> I was also thinking of renaming the nepomukserver to nepomuk_control, since
> it isn't really a server, but I'm afraid that might clash with the
> nepomukcontroller.
>
> --
> Vishesh Handa