| Summary: | kst should allow datasource via fish (and perhaps others) | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kst | Reporter: | Matthew Truch <matt> |
| Component: | datasources | Assignee: | kst |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.x | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | RedHat Enterprise Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Matthew Truch
2004-07-21 01:29:26 UTC
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 19:29, Matthew Truch wrote:
> It could be useful if in addition to indirect data files, one could type
> something like fish://user host/dir/with/data into the data source line to
> get data from affar. Or even http:// or ftp:// etc.
So far we decided not to do this by design due to performance issues
(especially because we have to poll for real time updates). I guess it
should still be considered, but I'm not particularly convinced yet.
I agree, for live data, it would 'suck' (technical term). But for static data, it would definatly be useful; and polling shouldn't hurt much (other than network bandwidth and longer latencies in checkinig) in this case, as the data isn't changinig. Just a thought. On Wednesday 21 July 2004 11:16, Matthew Truch wrote:
> I agree, for live data, it would 'suck' (technical term). But for static
> data, it would definatly be useful; and polling shouldn't hurt much (other
> than network bandwidth and longer latencies in checkinig) in this case, as
> the data isn't changinig.
The bigger problem is this:
- Data sources do their own I/O so each would have to support KIO
- Most data sources use external libraries to read the data, so they have to
copy the data file down to a temporary file and hopefully can clean it up
properly
- Therefore we might as well just copy the file ourselves before we call out
to the data source
- Completion and the wizard "Next" disable functionality basically breaks here
in the KURLRequester because we can't try to open a new remote file each time
the user types a character
So it's messy, but still conceivable.
CVS commit by staikos: Add support for data sources via KIO. FEATURE: 85594 M +1 -1 datawizard.ui.h 1.114 M +62 -10 kstdatasource.cpp 1.53 M +1 -2 kstvectordialog_i.cpp 1.59 |