Custom variable change notifies broker module

[Michael Friedrich]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> On 09/17/2011 01:52 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote:
>> On 16.09.2011 08:25, Matthieu Kermagoret wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Andreas Ericsson<ae at op5.se>    wrote:
>>>> I take it you want this for mk_livestatus for some reason? I won't
>>>> add it unless there's a usecase for it, and the potential case
>>>> where ndoutils might need it isn't strong enough for that. A used
>>>> module wanting this to make it more effective would be a strong
>>>> incentive to put it in though.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have no incentive to propose. This was just a solution to provide an
>>> effective way for modules to get notified of custom variable updates
>>> (like NDOUtils which just dump all host/service variables at each
>>> status update). However as you said, this could be done through
>>> external commands so never mind.
>>
>> i did not yet jump onto that, as i know that ndoutils do not process
>> adaptive data currently (the code remarks TODO). even though i think
>> providing such methods and adding more callbacks to current NEB would be
>> a good idea either way and open more (legal) possibilities for neb modules.
>>
>> so +1 from my side.
>>
>
> I'd still like a usecase though, otherwise this is just codechurn and
> noone is helped by adding it. Taking patches that "might be good one day"
> is the worst kind of maintainer insanity and leads to unmaintainable
> spaghetti code that noone dares touch because removing features others
> might use is far far worse than not adding them before they're used in
> the first place.
>
> Nuff said.

it's ok - i won't touch it either until i get a valuable use case for 
it. and ever since the ndo/ido callbacks don't take it for now this 
should remain a todo when neb modules are ready for usage.
until then the patch could be saved somewhere on the bug tracker not to 
lose it in here.

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