{"id":1488,"date":"2010-06-25T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T23:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:04:58","slug":"mcollective_data_definition_language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2010\/06\/25\/mcollective_data_definition_language.php","title":{"rendered":"MCollective Data Definition Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2010\/06\/14\/recent_mcollective_releases_and_roadmap.php\">recent post about mcollective Road Map<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/simplerpc\/ddl.html\">DDL<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The DDL is used to describe agents in a way that is accessible by other programs, web applications, client libraries and so forth to help those various client tools to configure themselves correctly.<\/p>\n<p>An actual example of a DDL file can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/ripienaar\/mcollective-plugins\/blob\/master\/agent\/puppetca\/puppetca.ddl\">here<\/a> if you want to have a good look at it and full docs <a href=\"http:\/\/marionette-collective.org\/simplerpc\/ddl.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve created a short video showing the DDL and some of the features of the upcoming 0.4.7 release,  you probably want to view it full screen to really see what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYHpijQA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"369\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And a quick note about the colors, I know people tend to feel strongly about this kind of thing, you can disable them in the config file of the client \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This is also my first attempt at using blip.tv, please let me know if you see any problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in my recent post about mcollective Road Map about the DDL. The DDL is used to describe agents in a way that is accessible by other programs, web applications, client libraries and so forth to help those various client tools to configure themselves correctly. An actual example of a DDL file can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}