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Re: ProtoXEP: Game Support
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2008-01-14 16:39:50
Torsten Grote wrote:
> Michal 'vorner' Vaner said the following on 01/12/2008
11:13 AM: 
>> Discovering:
>> Wouldn't it make sense use service disco to get
supported/ongoing games
>> too? (add items supported-games and ongoing-games
to item list, and their
>> sub-lists as games, for example)
>>
>> It seems to me defining new protocol for
discovering is not needed, if
>> there is a generic one.
> 
> I used a separate mechanism for discovering individual
games because
> there may be hundreds of games a client supports and
this would blow up
> a disco response considerably.

If you really expect a client to support hundreds of games
(!), I think 
it would be best to offer each game as an item at a special
disco node. 
Then another user can page through the items and see if one
matches, use 
XEP-0059 to page through the items, etc.

Peter


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Peter Saint-Andre
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