Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Scheduled Procs and Package IDs

2: Re: Scheduled Procs and Package IDs (response to 1)

Posted by Tilmann Singer on 04/05/04 04:35 PM

If the scheduled proc should do something for each mounted package then it might need to be scheduled or called for each instance separately. Look at how the irc-logger package in contrib handles this. If it should only be called once then maybe you should consider storing the parameter elsewhere than the package parameter - what if two instances have a contradicting setting, which should it use then?

3: Re: Scheduled Procs and Package IDs (response to 2)

Posted by Steve Manning on 04/05/04 04:55 PM

Thanks Tilmann

I'll take a look at the irc-logger code.

The point was that each package instance would have a different parameter value. I'm not sure if there is a better way to store parameters for a package instance. I only have the requirement for one instance of the package at the moment which is why the apm_package_id_from_key hack works.

The most obvious fix I've come up with to tracking the package_id is to have each instance keep track of its own package id and give it up on request via a proc. I just need a way to get the package id as the instance starts up.

- Steve