Some more changes

There are some more changes coming your way...

The only one that has the potential to break anything is around the attachments.  In a character, you will find an attachment_list, but it isn't actually a _list...it is a dictionary.  We will be change the name of this back to attachments to be consistent.

Other changes (these will appear in the API changes thread this morning):

• New query command: c:distinct (and the crowd goes wild)
• New collection for world, providing information about each active world (a.k.a. "server")
• Internal performance improvements

We've also completed our internal testing on the new database cluster, so I am going to get the wheels in motion for the new hardware to be ordered.  While I am happy with the performance we have at the moment, the cluster will give us much more headroom for future growth.

-dan

 

Couple of questions/comments.

1. For the attachments, is anything changing with the actual URL for the images, or just the fact that attachment_list is changing to attachments?
2. You're teasing us with c:distinct without giving us details.    I know, we'll see soon enough. 

Thanks!

 

1.  Just a name change on the container - it doesn't match our convention.

2.  Yes, I guess that was teasing.  It is really nothing more than a query that returns the distinct values on a field within the database.  This will be super useful for understanding the possible values for a particular field.

-dan