[platform-core-dev] Comments on RFC 0003: Log File Retrieval

[Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxx]

Overall I concur with the proposal.

The log may be very long, especially considering the changes mentioned in 
the plan to keep the log around longer than a single invocation.
It may be very memory-space intensive to read the whole thing in.
I recommend adding a parameter to retrieveLogContents specifying how many items to retrieve (presumably 
starting from the end).

It would be also be nice to be able to determine how many entries there 
are, and retrieve an arbitrary range, but this would require more 
information in the log file format to do this efficiently. 
For example, imagine a view which lets you scroll or page through the log 
without having to read the whole thing into memory at once.
This is probably less important than simply allowing a bounds on the 
number of entries read.

Question: It looks like the log API only allows it to contain IStatus 
objects.  Is this any more restricted than the current support?  I guess 
not, but thought I'd ask.