[sldev] New viewer released with logging of the owners of speaking objects and their location

Harold Brown labrat.hb at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 13:20:06 PDT 2007


That mapapi file will be going away in the future.

The replacement uses CAPS servers to do name to co-ordinate and co-ordinate
to name lookups


On 8/31/07, John Hurliman <jhurliman at wsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Dale Glass wrote:
> > Here's the current plan (slightly updated):
> >
> > Viewer will ship with region_names.xml, which contains the info. This
> will
> > include the complete list of sims seen on the map. This currently
> includes
> > region name, key and handle. Entry will be included even if the key
> couldn't
> > be obtained.
> >
> > Viewer uses this for doing lookups. If it's an entry with a key, no DB
> hits
> > are needed. If it's an entry with no key (eg, region was down at the
> time),
> > then it will do a RegionHandleRequest and check if the handle can be
> found in
> > the file. This will be displayed as an uncertain result, as the handle
> might
> > have changed.
> >
> > Usage of the world map will also update the cache, which should
> compensate.
> >
> > If that still doesn't work, it'll do a MapBlockRequest for the whole
> grid, and
> > use that to update all the listed handles. This will be limited to one
> time
> > per run.
> >
> > This, I think, is about as low of an impact I can manage to do without
> some
> > help from LL.
> >
> > A RegionNameRequest would save me the trouble of implementing all this,
> as
> > well as the DB impact. The file shipped with the viewer could be kept,
> so the
> > very rare cache miss (I'd expect more than 99% hits) would result in a
> lookup
> > of a single sim, instead of a huge MapBlockRequest.
> >
>
> It is either that, or grab http://secondlife.com/apps/mapapi/ and parse
> the second to last line to get an up to date, complete database of
> handle to name mappings (and vice versa) that removes the need for all
> of the other steps. In an ideal world the Lindens would implement every
> new packet we think of, but I've requested at least a half dozen over
> the last year and have slowly become fond of finding ways to make things
> work without changing the grid backend.
>
> John Hurliman
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