[ale] coding practices

[Jim Kinney]

Made my case and boss agrees with me. Now to get the third-party dev's
whipped into shape...

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I am having a disagreement with a procedure and am seeking other views.
> >
> > A non-free app generates a data file from a database function (database
> > also part of the non-free app).
> >
> > A third party application needs to scp that file elsewhere for further
> > processing.
> >
> > The third party wants a "done" file to indicate the app has finished
> > writing to the file. That's not needed due to how the app does it's
> > write then a move to the final location. No problem to touch a done file.
> >
> > Third party also wants the total row count in the data file appended to
> > the data file.
> >
> > This is where I disagree. I would far rather put the additional data in
> > the done file and not alter the output in anyway.
> >
> > Granted, adding the row count is trivial (wc -l filename >> filename)
> > and that last line will be nothing like the actual data lines. It does
> > make reprocessing the data files more complicated as they have to be
> > checked for the presence of the row count on the last line before
> > rerunning the import process again.
> >
> > Other views?
>
> Sorry, I completely agree with you.  You should never 'pollute' data
> with such information.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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