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At this point it's starting to look like the pdu objects in
rpki.left_right are a subclass of a more general class of objects that
live in SQL (duh).  This makes sense as left-right protocol was
designed to let us frob a subset of the rpki database on the wire.

Hmm, it's more complicated than that.  Most of left_right maps well,
but portions (eg, <list_resources/>) are just commands and do not.
Mixin?  We have a varient of this same problem with the mixins I'm
already using in irbe-cli.py.

Also need to think about up-down protocol, currently separate but some
of these objects might map there too.  This is why I originally
intended to code all of these as separate object hierarchies even
though in some cases they look awfully similar.  Hmm, implement as
separate hierarchies with sideways conversion methods?  Still feels
wrong, but so does turning this into one big interconnected mess.

Ok, up-down XML is all structured as commands, data is all attributes
and (occasionally) element content, so not very close match to db.

So this appears to break out fairly cleanly: objects shown in blue in
the repository-engine-objects.pdf picture are both left-right PDU
objects and database objects, objects shown in green are only database
objects, and left-right PDU objects not shown in that picture are just
left-right PDUs.  Or something close to this, details need checking.
So this does look like some kind of mixin would be appropriate.



Code to pull in an entire self_id context at once turned out to be
much too complicated.  Replacement is more of a demand-paged design.
Need to be careful about making sure we save out all changes between
events, objects have a .sql_dirty attribute but I should also add a
Python set object into which we can insert any object that needs to be
saved when the current event exits.

Haven't done anything about db.commit() and db.rollback() yet, for
that matter haven't yet whacked MySQL to enable those features.

Access to object data attributes really ought to be through accessor
methods so that the .set() method can set the sql_dirty flag
automagically.  Not done yet.

Hmm, do we really need .sql_dirty at all?  Maybe just inserting the
object into the dirty set (above) would suffice?  One less thing to
screw up.

Use generalized serve_*_hook() methods to handle actions signaled by
the various left-right boolean controls.  One fun test case for this
should be bsc keypair generation.  Some of the defined actions will be
things we can't implement yet due to lack of a real timer system.  Eg,
the various "do this right now" actions are probably best handled as
triggers, a la interrupt handlers.  Well, maybe.  IRBE folks might
prefer a version that blocked response to the request until the whole
cycle is done, once we have an event system that can treat the query
and response phases of an rpc operation as two distinct events.



Hmm, I seem to have goofed on the bsc table, need a column for the
hash algorithm after all, as it's not intrinsic to the key.  Probably
ought to let it be set independently of the key too.  But for the
moment I'm only supporting 2048-bit RSA with SHA-256 digests, so
fixing this is not urgent.