Hi, right now when gmetad fails an error is logged and in some cases the connection to the client interrupted returning invalid XML or in other cases (item not found or broken request) the entire tree is returned. This imho is bad behavior and code should be added to inform the client of the error, but before that's possible it needs to be agreed how this communication should happen. I'm not really fond of XML or ganglia's code, but I'd guess adding an ERROR element to the DTD is possibly a solution. At that point whenever there's an error root_report_start() should be called at the very least and an error element added inside. This should also work nicely for the multi-item per request patch I proposed elsewhere [1] as you'd have an error per requested element.
If anybody is willing to lend a hand to kickstart the XML definition (or whatever approach is best) I'd be glad to work on the rest. thanks -- "Behind every great man there's a great backpack" - B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
