On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:45:56 +0200 David ?Bombe? Roden <bombe at pterodactylus.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 July 2009 07:10:15 Jonas Bengtsson wrote: > > > SubscribeFeeds > > Identifier=Arbitrary text string > > > SubscribedFeed > > Identifier=Identifier of the subscription > > Are the ?Identifier? fields in these messages really necessary? Isn?t the > ?SubscribeFeeds? command somehow equivalent to a ?WatchGlobal? (which does > not > have an identifier)? > > > Bombe You might be right. The subscription model for feeds is modeled after the subscription model for bookmark updates. For bookmark updates there are often many subscription, having an identifier makes it easy for the client to differentiate between bookmark updates. For feeds there are usually only one subscriber. Several feed subscriptions per client would only make sense if the subscriptions could be made more granular. An instant messaging client might for example only be interested in receiving text messages and file offers(not finished yet). Is it worth the effort to implement more granular subscriptions or should I make it behave as WatchGlobal and remove the identifier? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090723/3f7e3aed/attachment.pgp>
