XML, JSON, Webservice or something new ?

[Yann Jouanin]

And I do remember it would be easy enough to write a sqlite backend (at
least for status)...


A good point would be to get Ethan input!

Yann

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Max [mailto:perldork at webwizarddesign.com] 
Envoyé : mardi 18 août 2009 19:13
À : Nagios Developers List
Objet : Re: [Nagios-devel] XML, JSON, Webservice or something new ?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Sven-Göran Bergh<sgb at systemasis.com>
wrote:
> If we think of it as two parts, a filebased DB backend
> and a webservice. Wouldn't it make sense to take a
> look at the DB schema used by Merlin & Ninja, or is it
> too heavy? Possibly the same schema could be used and
> potentially open for the use of Ninja (the officially
> "new" Nagios GUI) without involving Merlin. Don't get
> me wrong here. I really like Merlin, it rocks, but if
> you do not need all its funtionality a lightweight
> DB only alternative whould be nice.

Definitely worth investigating and at the same time I really like the
idea of having an embedded / zero admin DB for Nagios for current
information, one that is not much heavier than the flat files :).

> I realize that some information will be missing, but
> the potential of code re-use is there.

Agreed.

> For the backend my vote is on SQLite. It supports more
> client apps any way.

Good point, tons of language bindings for it as well.  need to learn
more about COB.

> I am not the man to judge pros & cons of JSON vs XML.
> But if we are talking web services, the client app
> does not need to be a web page. Is JSON suitable for
> other client apps as well? Just asking, I don't know.

Absolutely, it is lightweight and every language I know of has very
easy to use serialize / deserialize methods that turn JSON into
language specific structures.

- max

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