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Re: [metering] Do we need an API and storage?

 

On 12-05-18 04:49 PM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
>>  On 12-05-17 08:14 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> > The plan, as I understand it, is to ensure that all metering messages
>> > appear on a common bus using a documented format. Deployers who do not
>> > want the storage system and REST API will not need to use it, and can
>> > set up their own clients to listen on that bus. I'm not sure how much of
>> > a client library is needed, since the bus is AMQP and the messages are
>> > JSON, both of which have standard libraries in most common languages.

> Like Thierry Carrez mentioned, the main use for a library was to handle
> validation of message signature in a handy fashion. Bug I agree that
> this client library would just be a thin convenience wrapper around the
> bus protocol.
> 

Of course, it was you in your reply to Thierry that mentioned this :-)


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