[sldev] Re: [svc] Back end features

[Tao Takashi]

2007/8/31, Ryan Williams <rdw at lindenlab.com>:
>
> Dale Glass wrote:
> >> So, anyway, the immediate use case suggests a larger use case, and it's
> >> important to implement the former in terms of the latter.
> >>
> > If thinking long term, something to consider would be doing a general
> sim
> > information request instead. If people are going to have bots running
> through
> > the whole grid to collect data, might as well let them have it directly
> and
> > reduce the grid load a bit.
> >
> Totally.   I believe that one challenge with such a request is that the
> set of information you can see varies based on you role relative to the
> region.  So, maybe there could be a public-info request that has only
> the totally public data, which would presumably include the varying
> names.  Actually, it'd be interesting to compile a list of what
> information is already public about a region, that would remove an
> additional step in the implementation of a 'public-region-info' API.


A web service for this would be a great help for many things IMHO. Like
requesting parcel data from a region might be very useful.
Of course this needs to take into account whether a sim is public or not and
what permissions you have there actually.

As for object information I guess this would be more complicated but still
it would be handy
so have some API for requestion info about objects on a sim or maybe queried
on a different set
of variables. This would make external search engines more easily possible.
Issues here are of course how to opt-out etc. But even this could be more
easily solved
by Linden Lab than by any 3rd party which scans the grid via bots.

-- Tao

PS: And I still would like a web service for uploading new assets to my
account like textures or sounds :-)


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