On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org>wrote:
> kunal ghosh wrote: > >> hi guys, i've been working on a GUI for the DistroConstructor and have >> come across a problem. >> to get the info about a package to be put on a table, like the existing >> package manager, i am doing as follows >> 1.pkg list -a to get the list of package names >> 2.pkg info <package> to get its info and parse it and put it in the table. >> alternately i could do pkg info -r to get all the package info >> but the problem is that it takes a lot of time , about a minute or so, >> which is unacceptable for a wizard app. >> Any suggestions , or means, to get the details of all packages of >> registered authorities faster ? >> > > -r has to retrieve the information from the server and then parse it, so > it will definitely take a lot more time. > > At this time, there really isn't a fast way to get the details of all > packages of registered publishers quickly from the cli. > > If you were using the python pkg.client.api, there are APIs in place that > would make it much faster to retrieve this information than using the cli. thanks shawn , i am currently using java ( a long story, as to why java for this gui ). I should be able to use the api using Jython. thanks for letting me know about it. > > > You should really use the Python API we provide. > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker > > -- Kunal Ghosh BE 4th semester Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering. Sir MVIT Bangalore,India Quote: Live Long And Prosper.--A popular Vulcan salutation Website:www.kunalghosh.net46.net Blog:kunalghosh.wordpress.com V-card:http://tinyurl.com/86qjyk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090330/96de20da/attachment.html>
