[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Server from Client

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:53:52PM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:42:41PM -0500, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> > I've been working a little on putting server controls into the client GUI,
> > and have been running into trouble getting the needed data.  Is there a
> > way for the client to request just the value of a config variable, or just
> > its max/min?  The Show Server Options menu commands just get a single text
> > string, which would be very annoying to parse.
> > 
> > Is there a way?  Would it be reasonable to add a way?
> 
> There are three ways that I'm aware of.
> 
> 1) Closest to the Freeciv design: let the config vars be
> part of the data structure shared between server and client,
> and make sure they get updated upon any change by regular updating
> packets from the server.  [...]

> 2) The second way is to use the special 'reporting' packets that send the
> current settings as a text string, and parse the text.  [...]

> 3) The third way is to use the server command language: /show <var> or 
> similar.
> Extend the language as necessary.  This method has already been discussed.
> However, we only discussed the language to use for the command, not the
> language of the command results.  At the moment, there is no restriction
> on the form of the results, because they are intended for human
> consumption; the same problem as with method #2.

But Per's rfcstyle solves this problem.  So this seems to be the best way
for the moment.

-- 
Reinier