A couple of questions on Support Interface for Logging

[KevinBenson]

I had a few questions on the updated Support Interface.

1.) Logging now going to VOStore?
    This seems a little too much, both the server and client have to do 
complicated tasks: sending/retrieving files to and from VOStore, 
generating request id's, e-mail Notifications, either client or server 
will need to specify filenames in the VOStore, convert your results to 
csv.  All seem to be a little complicated.
    I would prefer that we keep it simple can we just have it as 
synchronous and have it immediately returned.  I suspect there is a lot 
of logging going on, but we should be able to return up to a month worth 
of data in a synchronous call.  How about simply restricting in the spec 
the fromDate and toDate should not be more than a 30 days between the 
dates.   And for the return of the data it can now be an actual simple 
xml schema of all your optional&required values.


**The next question are really only if we kept the Logging interface 
simple with no VOStore.
2.)  Will we need security on the logging?
   If we did keep it simple is there anything in the response that would 
require security?  I can only possibly see clientIP. Be nice not to have 
security at all on Logging interface.  Or is there other hidden reasons 
you might need authentication into the Logging interface.

cheers,
Kevin

Ani Thakar wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've posted an updated VO Support Interfaces draft spec, version 0.23 
>at:
>
>http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaGridAndWebServices/VOSupportInterfaces-0.23.pdf
>
>This includes changes to the logging interfaces to fix some missing 
>information as well as to update the interfaces to send output to a 
>logging VOStore.   This part will still need tweaking before it is 
>finalized, of course.  I've also added a note about access/security for 
>the logging VOStore.
>
>I posted the WSDL for the updated services in VOSupportInterfaces.wsdl, 
>but I noticed that there were 2 WSDL documents for the support 
>interfaces: VObsServices.wsdl which contains the getAvailability and 
>registry metadata interfaces, and the other one containing the logging 
>interfaces.  Since the latter are non-mandatory, I've updated the 
>support interfaces section to include both WSDL files, one for mandatory 
>support interfaces and the other for non-mandatory (logging) interfaces.
>I updated the comment in the VObsServices.wsdl file to reflect the fact 
>that the logging WSDL was in a separate document.
>
>However, I note that the current draft spec contains identical 
>language, "All VO services *should* implement ..." for all the current 
>support interfaces, mandatory and non-mandatory.  I guess this should be 
>changed to "must implement" for the mandatory interfaces, right?
>
>Please send me comments, questions if you have any.  Cheers.
>
>	Ani
>
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