[bind10-dev] Plugin proposal

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:21:20AM +0200, Jelte Jansen wrote:
> I think that at least for now, we should make this a fixed,
> onedimensional list.
> IMHO this is a nice tradeoff between flexibility and simplicity; we
> don't need separate explicit callbacks in different parts of the code
> and the interface would be pretty tightly defined.

I agree that each of the lists should be one dimensional, at last for now. But I
think we might want to have multiple of them.

For example, in the resolver, we need to look up some information from time to
time. Currently, there's a lookup in a cache, then followed by a lookup by
upstream query. It would be nice to be able to add additional sources (some
local data backend, lookup by different protocol, etc.). So there might be
another list to process, not just the one. I'd see it similarly how functions
call each other ‒ inside one function, the commands happen sequentially (like
things in one list), but you can call into another one, wait until it terminates
and then continue.

With regards

-- 
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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