On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote:
Sure, and you'll get that too. Let me whip up some examples to go alongside the XML.
Ok so thanks to your feedback today, here's a first pass at flattening the Atom into INI file <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization_file> format (basically what you had but with "=" for human & computer readability): [decca5a5-8952-4004-9793-cdbbf05c3c63] category = server title = Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Virtual Appliance summary = Base installation of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 content.cpu = 2 content.memory = 4Gb link.disk[0].id = 4696b561-a253-42b4-bd27-7aa4950e0a60 link.disk[0].dev = sda link.network[0].id = 45a73b80-c957-4ae1-97c6-b70652eba1d1 link.network[0].dev = eth0 mc.state = RUNNING br.meter.rate = 0.10 br.meter.currency = USD br.meter.unit = hours br.meter.total = 35.27 pm.monitor.cpu = 75.2 pm.monitor.mem = 1059374258 mc.ops.start = http://example.com/decca5a5-8952-4004-9793-cdbbf05c3c63/ops/start mc.ops.stop = http://example.com/decca5a5-8952-4004-9793-cdbbf05c3c63/ops/stop mc.ops.restart = http://example.com/decca5a5-8952-4004-9793-cdbbf05c3c63/ops/restart mc.ops.suspend = http://example.com/decca5a5-8952-4004-9793-cdbbf05c3c63/ops/suspend [4696b561-a253-42b4-bd27-7aa4950e0a60] category = storage content.size = 148251374 link.self = virtual-disk.vmdk [45a73b80-c957-4ae1-97c6-b70652eba1d1] category = network content.vlan = 4095 content.dhcp = true content.subnet = 192.168.0.0 content.netmask = 255.255.0.0 content.gateway = 192.168.0.1 av.com.cisco.cdp = true Note in the last line that vendors can safely extend the schema with attribute/value pairs for things like CDP. Anyway I have to scurry off to the CloudCampParis organisers' meeting - back around 7. Cheers, Sam