[Mondrian] Re: Eigenbase perforce change 13904 for review

[Luc Boudreau]

Good thinking. This is definitely a refactoring worth doing. I created a
Jira case to track it.

http://jira.pentaho.com/browse/MONDRIAN-833

Have a great week end everyone!
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Luc Boudreau


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Julian Hyde <jhyde at pentaho.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Luc Boudreau [mailto:lucboudreau at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 12, 2010 12:28 PM
> *To:* jhyde at pentaho.com
> *Cc:* Mondrian developer mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: Eigenbase perforce change 13904 for review
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>  Actually just thinking about that. This should be in mondrian.properties
> anyway. I'll refactor it.
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> That would be great.
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> By the way, I want to refactor the XMLA server at some point. We'd make it
> run on the olap4j API (rather than the legacy mondrian.olap API). That
> would mean that the XMLA server would be generic -- it would put an XMLA
> service on any olap4j data source. Decoupled from mondrian, the XMLA server
> could be spun out as a separate project.
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> There is functionality in the XMLA server to parse datasources.xml and
> expose particular (catalog.xml, JDBC connect string) combinations as
> schemas. An typical olap4j driver knows its collection of schemas. It's only
> mondrian's olap4j driver that has to be told. Therefore, this functionality
> needs to be moved out of the XMLA server into mondrian. We would build a
> mondrian olap4j driver that parses datasources.xml and exposes schemas
> accordingly; the code to parse datasources.xml would be moved from the XMLA
> server.
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> Then of course this parameter you just added would not be a servlet
> parameter, because it would be the driver that is reading datasources.xml,
> and it would not necessarily be running in the context of a servlet.
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> Just a heads up where things are going...
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> Julian
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