Re: Game history UI

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> On 1/25/06, Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath <at> eblong.com> wrote:
>>
>> We would need a way to refer to a particular game record. (That is, if you
>> are browsing the game records, and you want to throw one at your client,
>> there has to be a way to name it.) I suppose this would be the game URI
>> plus a record number of some sort.
>
> Why not skip the URI and just use a record ID string?

Works either way. If you have only a record ID string, then it has to be 
globally unique (at that bookkeeper), instead of being unique to that 
game. You're the bookkeeper implementor; you tell me which makes more 
sense. :)

>> What we want is an RPC "volity.game_history(data)". Actually, two RPCs.
>
> Oh, yes, of course, this is what I think I meant to say...
>
> Except that let's actually make this a bit more general (and useful)
> by replacing it with these calls, which deal at the game record level
> (which will include history, plus other useful metadata):
>
> Client->Bookkeeper: volity.game_record($record_id)
> Bookkeeper->Client: volity.game_record($record_id, $record)

I retain a preference for naming these RPCs differently. get_record and 
game_record? You're entirely right that they should deal with game 
records, rather than just the "history" data field.

> The second argument in the latter call is a game record struct,
> exactly as described in [[Game Record]]. I'm keeping the ID separate
> just to avoid changing that specification by adding an ID field, but
> maybe it should have one anyway...?

It's certainly not going to have an ID when the referee submits it. I'm 
okay with the ID being attached as a field when it comes back from the 
bookkeeper; I suspect that we'll eventually have more bookkeeper-supplied 
fields anyway.

(We should therefore add a section to [[Game Record]] for "Fields which 
the referee must not supply, because the bookkeeper will supply them.")

--Z

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