[Fusioninventory-devel] renaming SNMPQuery task

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

2011/8/17 Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>:
> On 17/08/2011 12:46, David DURIEUX wrote:
>>
>> Le Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:40:56 +0200
>> Guillaume Rousse<guillomovitch at gmail.com>  a écrit:
>>
>>> On 17/08/2011 10:57, David DURIEUX wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Le Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:57:22 +0200
>>>> Guillaume Rousse<guillomovitch at gmail.com>   a écrit:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello list.
>>>>>
>>>>> I propose to rename the 'SNMPQuery' to 'NetInventory', for
>>>>> consistency with 'NetDiscovery' first, and to avoid useless
>>>>> reference to specific implementation details (SNMP).
>>>>>
>>>>> The questions are:
>>>>> - does the suggested name seems OK ?
>>>>> - is it wise to do it now (for 2.2.0 release) ?
>>>>
>>>> This will require modifications on server (plugin GLPI) and will not
>>>> work with released versions. I think I can made a release 2.3.7 with
>>>> correction name of module.
>>>
>>> If the agent still announce it to the server with its old name, and
>>> accept server reply with either name, isn't it enough to ensure
>>> compatibility ?
>>>
>>
>> If agent use the oldname, it will works, but how agent know if it use
>> old or new name ?
>
> The agent will propose the task twice, with both names, and the server will
> just reply to the one he is aware of.

REST/JSON protocol already implement a task version inventory. What about using
it to do this name changes?
http://forge.fusioninventory.org/projects/fusioninventory-agent/wiki/API-REST

Best regards,
-- 
     Gonéri Le Bouder