RFC 3.2 : Koha Offline Circulation
Hello All, This is a request for comments regarding the file format for the offline circulation system. The specification for the Koha Offline Circulation (.koc) file format can be found here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=koha_offline_circulation_file_format which Andrew Moore and I have come up with. I believe it is simple but extensible in case we need to add new features to the offline circulation client in the future. Having a standardized format means that we can have more than one offline circ client. The code to process this file format is already completed for both the client and server side processors. Please let me know what you think. Kyle -- http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All, This is a request for comments regarding the file format for the offline circulation system. The specification for the Koha Offline Circulation (.koc) file format can be found here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=koha_offline_circulation_file_format which Andrew Moore and I have come up with. I believe it is simple but extensible in case we need to add new features to the offline circulation client in the future. Having a standardized format means that we can have more than one offline circ client.
The code to process this file format is already completed for both the client and server side processors.
Please let me know what you think.
Kyle
What is the purpose of the +randomnumber at the end of the timestamp? Why not just add microseconds? Otherwise, this looks good. Standardized is always better than not.
That makes alot more sense, but I think we should probably go with Milliseconds rather than microseconds ( I don't know if there is even a way to get microseconds in PHP ). I'll update the design document and the circ client code. Kyle On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Jesse Weaver <jesse.weaver@liblime.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All, This is a request for comments regarding the file format for the offline circulation system. The specification for the Koha Offline Circulation (.koc) file format can be found here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=koha_offline_circulation_file_format which Andrew Moore and I have come up with. I believe it is simple but extensible in case we need to add new features to the offline circulation client in the future. Having a standardized format means that we can have more than one offline circ client.
The code to process this file format is already completed for both the client and server side processors.
Please let me know what you think.
Kyle
What is the purpose of the +randomnumber at the end of the timestamp? Why not just add microseconds?
Otherwise, this looks good. Standardized is always better than not.
-- http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All, This is a request for comments regarding the file format for the offline circulation system.
Now that we're getting close to taking enhancements for 3.2, I opened up bug 2503 to keep track of the work put into interpreting these files in Koha. http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2503 Kyle, I have your patches and am trying them out. One of us can send them along to patches@koha.org when we get a little more testing done. Thanks for your work on this, I think it will be a very useful tool! -Andy
You can go ahead a submit the patches to patches@koha.org. I don't have a mail client set up that won't screw up the attachments. Later, Kyle On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Andrew Moore <andrew.moore@liblime.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All, This is a request for comments regarding the file format for the offline circulation system.
Now that we're getting close to taking enhancements for 3.2, I opened up bug 2503 to keep track of the work put into interpreting these files in Koha.
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2503
Kyle, I have your patches and am trying them out. One of us can send them along to patches@koha.org when we get a little more testing done. Thanks for your work on this, I think it will be a very useful tool!
-Andy
-- http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
participants (3)
-
Andrew Moore -
Jesse Weaver -
Kyle Hall