Sending binaries over relations

[Merlijn Sebrechts]

I like the idea of rsync. Is there a way to restrict access to a single
file on the rsync server?

2016-01-20 16:16 GMT+01:00 Marco Ceppi <marco at ondina.co>:

> I don't think sending the binary via relation is a good idea. Either
> spinning up a web service or using rsync would be a better bet
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 10:10 AM Matthew Williams <
> matthew.williams at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Would it not be better for the charm to have a path the client can `wget`
>> the libraries from - this path can be sent via the relation as a string
>>
>> Matty
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:30 PM, José Antonio Rey <jose at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> One of the options would be to cat the file as a string and pass that
>>> string over the connection, finally echoing that string to foo.binary.
>>>
>>> What do others think?
>>>
>>> --
>>> José Antonio Rey
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 08:25 Merlijn Sebrechts <
>>> merlijn.sebrechts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a question I'd like to discuss, if you guys aren't to busy
>>>> prepping for Ubucon.. :)
>>>>
>>>> I've found a number of Java projects where, in order to communicate for
>>>> example with Kafka, they require the Kafka Java libraries for that specific
>>>> version. For the moment, I solve this by downloading the libraries from a
>>>> deployed Kafka installation and include them in the Charm. However, this
>>>> has the disadvantage that everytime the Kafka charm version changes, I have
>>>> to update the libraries in all the charms that connect to Kafka. It would
>>>> be better if there was a way to send these libraries over the connection.
>>>> This way, a Charm that can connect to one version of Kafka has a very high
>>>> chance of being able to connect to the next version.
>>>>
>>>> So my question is: Is there a way to send large binary files between
>>>> Charms? Or is this problem better solved by using a subordinate
>>>> kafka-plugin Charm like the Hadoop Charms do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> Merlijn Sebrechts
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