[kepler-dev] Icons in the *DataSource actors

Kevin Ruland kruland at ku.edu
Tue Jan 10 11:06:34 PST 2006


Matt Jones wrote:

> Well, for the EML actor we might have a pretty good idea of the data 
> size based on the metadata that states size of the data.  It is an 
> optional field in EML so won't always be present, but if we have it 
> then it would be effective feedback on the state of the download.
>
That's only half the problem.  We also don't have a mechanism to track 
how many bytes have already been downloaded.  I will be diving into this 
shortly since the Ecogrid Client get() method is a major memory hog.   
It really needs to serialized directly to disk instead of building a 
monster giant byte[].

Alas, time to dig into the guts of axis again.

> Other DataSource actors may also be able to extract some size 
> information from their metadata to be used, or maybe not, so the 
> spinning arrow as a default would still be needed.
>
> Matt




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