Re: [provision] Asynchronous requests.

[Gary P Cole <Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM>]

Thank you, Doron.  If it makes sense to request asynchronous execution 
for only certain  operations, then the next question is...for which 
operations? Jeff Larson suggested the following:
- batch
- add
- modify
- delete

Would you add or take away any operation from this list?

gpc

Cohen, Doron wrote:

>Gary,
>
>I believe you may want to go async for many operation, even if not batch as
>the requestor as no way to predict how long the operation would take and
>opting for async. I would tend to agree that there is no point in status or
>cancel operations. 
>
>Doron 
>
>Doron
>
>Doron Cohen
>Chief Architect, Identity Management BU
>BMC Software
>Email: doron_cohen@bmc.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary P Cole [mailto:Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM] 
>Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:39 PM
>To: Jeff Bohren
>Cc: PSTC
>Subject: [provision] Asynchronous requests.
>
>Does it make sense to be able to issue a 'cancel' or a 'status' request 
>asynchronously?  I don't think so, since you'd have to keep track of the 
>requestID of the cancel request in order to find out whether your cancel 
>worked.  Imagine keeping track of the requestID of a status request in 
>order to find out the status of the status request. 
>
>You see where I'm headed, right?  It doesn't make much more sense to get 
>the status of a status request than it would make to batch up batch 
>requests.  (We prevent the latter by specifying that BatchRequestType is 
>not itself a BatchableRequestType.)
>
>Which operations would one want to execute asynchronously?
>- 'listTargets'?
>- 'cancel'?
>- 'status'?
>- 'lookup'?
>- 'search'?
>- an individual 'add'?
>- an individual 'modify'?
>- an individual 'delete'?
>
>Or does asynchronous execution make sense primarily for the 'batch' 
>operation?
>
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