Hi Onno, I'm glad you asked that question.
Good news: We're aware that notifications mechanism could/should be made more usable. Right now, we've got project that will introduce intelligent poll mechanism to see updates to asynchronous orders/actions (UI and API). You would be able to acknowledge reviewed updates, so that next time, you get only new ones. In essence, you need not keep track of asynchronous items on your end, just ask: what are new updates related to async. items? Again, you could do this through UI (say, every day), or automate through API, to run every few hours. BTW, we've considered email, but due to unreliability have chosen intelligent poll, rather than push technology, so you can process it when you're ready. This features is coming really soon, (app. 1 month to Live date), but first release will be applicable to email service only. We will expand on this mechanism for all services we offer, including domains, in a staggered fashion. Bad news: It will take us some time to get to domains, due to underlying difference in infrastructure. Hope that helps, ------------------------------------ Zeljko Dimic Technical Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucows Inc. 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, ON, M6K 3M1 Canada tel: 416.535.0123 x 1256 fax: 416.531.5584 ------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Onno > Molenkamp > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [domains-dev] processing results of asynchronous actions > > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a good way to be notified of completion of asynchronous > requests. (registrations at asynchronous registries, transfers, ...) > There seem to be operations for checking individual domains, but this is > very inefficient. (and puts an unnecessary high load on the > opensrs server) > > A better approach would be a very simple and quick operation that only > returns the order id's of the orders that have been updated since the > last check (or since a specified timestamp, something like that) and > only retrieve the full domain status for those id's. It could bring down > the number of server requests dramatically. > > Ideally, an asynchronous notification mechanism would be used, to get > rid of every kind of polling. For example, by sending the result codes > (preferably in the same XML format) by email. (the normal mails sent by > opensrs are hardly useful for automatic processing, they don't contain > well defined and structured information) > > Have I overlooked something in the documentation and is any of this > already possible, or are there other ways to accomplish this in a > efficient way? > > Onno Molenkamp > VEVIDA Services BV > _______________________________________________ > domains-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-dev > _______________________________________________ domains-dev mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-dev
