[geclipse-dev] GRIA data managmement

[Ariel Garcia <garcia@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

currently "expanding" a GRIA connection is not very performant.

We download a whole bunch of extra info for each data stager each 
time we expand a connection: i mean the 
      "getting information for $FILENAME"
part. At the moment we already have the filenames, and we could already 
display the folder contents! (for that we only need the name, ie 
the "label")

The info of each stager can be fetched lazyly later if the user opens the 
properties view for instance. This should make the gria connections much 
more agile.  Listing a folder is usually a ~O(1) operation, looping over 
files is obviously O(N)... :-(
Or is there anything preventing us from doing it this way?


On the other hand, if i understood the code correctly there is 
another "remote" operation per file needed for each 
       "processing $FILE"
step, in which we get the stager labels. I guess that is unavoidable (the 
cost of userfriendliness) with the current GRIA API right?  


On the other hand, a feature which would be really useful i think is having 
different icons for owned stagers compared to stagers we can see/read but 
do not own... this would be a nice improvement for the not-so-rare ;-) use 
case of trying to edit shared files.

Opinions?

Cheers, Ariel