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<blockquote data-quote="Inker" data-source="post: 295703" data-attributes="member: 10541">Well sure I've thought about it, but it requires massive amounts of work.I'd design it as a seperate importer, which is mostly independend from MP (at maximum use some dlls maybe), that runs as a service on the server and writes entries to a db server. Clients then only retrieve info, and maybe write some user specific things (like diff. settings, or watched flags and the like to the db server). Importer and clients never talk to each other directly.Question is how do you handle data like banners. Store them as a blob to the db. On the server disk....if so, how does the client retrieve them..windows shares. Do you design another service that handles sending those out, or does the importer handle it. Similarly, how do you play your episodes..... Do you cache the images locally on the clients?How do you send data like ratings to the onlinedb. Should the clients do it directly, for each user seperatly? Should it simply write to the local db, and then the importer monitors it and sends it online?What about single-seat users.....do you really require them to install a db server just to use your plugin. Do you provide a fallback to sqlite for those users.MP2 will hopefully abstract alot of this stuff await from plugins, thus a plugin written according to design guidelines will do all of those by default. At least that's my hope.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Inker, post: 295703, member: 10541"] Well sure I've thought about it, but it requires massive amounts of work. I'd design it as a seperate importer, which is mostly independend from MP (at maximum use some dlls maybe), that runs as a service on the server and writes entries to a db server. Clients then only retrieve info, and maybe write some user specific things (like diff. settings, or watched flags and the like to the db server). Importer and clients never talk to each other directly. Question is how do you handle data like banners. Store them as a blob to the db. On the server disk....if so, how does the client retrieve them..windows shares. Do you design another service that handles sending those out, or does the importer handle it. Similarly, how do you play your episodes..... Do you cache the images locally on the clients? How do you send data like ratings to the onlinedb. Should the clients do it directly, for each user seperatly? Should it simply write to the local db, and then the importer monitors it and sends it online? What about single-seat users.....do you really require them to install a db server just to use your plugin. Do you provide a fallback to sqlite for those users. MP2 will hopefully abstract alot of this stuff await from plugins, thus a plugin written according to design guidelines will do all of those by default. At least that's my hope. [/QUOTE]

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