[dcc2] Multi file sends

[Phoenix Fyrestar]

I personally think that using XML is one of the better possible solutions.  
While I understand the reluctance to do this because it would require an XML 
parser, I think that any good solution would end up comming back to something 
XML-like anyway.

What about using a subset of XML, with set definitions for a few common file 
attributes.  This shouldn't be too much harder to grok than a set of  tokens 
anyway.

My personal idea of how to impliment this would be to first send an xml or 
xml-like meta file that would contain information about the files.  It might 
look something like:

<sendfile>

	<type>multi-part</type>
	<senderID>userJoe</senderID>
	<enctype>plain</enctype>

	<file>
		<name>File1.txt</name>
		<size>113427</size>
		<permissions>755</permissions>
	</file>

	<file>
		<name>File2.txt</name>
		<size>2293</size>
		<permissions>777</permissions>
	</file>

</sendfile>

If something like that is unacceptable,  what about prepending a custom binary 
header to the top of each file which would be read by the recieving client 
and then deleted.
This way instead of defining all of the files at once, each file could merely 
give information about the next file in the queue, sort of like creating a 
linked list with the files.
	

On Monday 26 April 2004 03:22 pm, Jeremy Iverson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few people have mentioned that they don't like the idea of using XML
> to describe the files being sent during multi transfers, since that
> means clients would then need to have an XML parser. I was wondering
> if anybody had ideas for any other formats? I think it has to be
> something more than just
>
> FILE ID "FILE.EXT" "DESC" SIZE CRC
>
> as was suggested on another forum. That simple format doesn't allow
> for extensibility (say, adding meta data about the file like
> permissions, as Timo suggested).
>
> I guess using a token system, similar to how negotiation is done,
> would be one way of doing it. Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
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