remote b-metadata sync issue

[bnlawrence]

The use case is

User parses remote directory, returns b-metadata (and other stuff locally), then subsequently wants to update, how to make that efficient?

Option A is generate json remotely and update local database, but that means the entire remote needs to be parsed for any update.

Option B is keep a remote sqlite db and update that only as necessary, and pull back changes, so need to keep two dbs in sync.
See this stack overflow for some discussion.

[bnlawrence]

(That effectively requires a full installation of cfstore remotely, which may not be that good, but we need a cf install anyway to get b-metadata, or at the very least an NC install with a very cut-down script to pull attributes.)

[bnlawrence]

This is really a CF aggregation problem. We neeed to make sure there is a ticket in CF-python linked to this.