0004027: IpToCountry_v3.dat.SPECS.txt is ambiguous about the support for multiple sections with the same Type field

Section ------- Sections can contain any arbitrary data. The Type of the section informs what should be expected in the given section and how should it be parsed. The sections can appear in any order, so the file can have Types "2, 0, 1" just as well as "0, 1, 2". No section is mandatory either. Field | Size | Description ----------------------------------- Type | BYTE | 0 for Licence, 1 for GeoIP, 2 for URL. Size | ULONGLONG | Size of the section in bytes. Payload | <Size> | Contents of the section.

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(0022368) WubTheCaptain (reporter) 2022-09-07 12:22	V3 also has an unfortunate design: There is no easy way to tie multiple Type 0 ("license", aka "Text of the licence note.") and Type 2 ("URL", aka "The URL to the database's home page.") together? Specifically with Creative Commons attribution licenses, these two need to be tied together by the license's requirements. I detailed this more in my other note 0003952:0022365.

(0022371) Zalewa (developer) 2022-09-07 12:52 edited on: 2022-09-07 12:52	Acknowledging that this is an omission in the spec. The licence and geoip sections can exist many times and the program should parse them as they go and append the data to the already known data. The URL section can also theoretically exist more than once but I don't see a purpose for that. Maybe to have more than one home page? The current implementation will just overwrite the previous URL if this section occurs again. In any of these cases it should be considered abnormal to have more than one of each section. Quote from WubTheCaptain There is no easy way to tie multiple Type 0 ("license", aka "Text of the licence note.") and Type 2 ("URL", aka "The URL to the database's home page.") together? Because those sections aren't meant to be associated together. If you need an URL to the licence you can embed it in the licence note. The program won't make it clickable though.

(0022375) Zalewa (developer) 2022-09-07 15:27	I hope this will explain the ambiguities:'https://bitbucket.org/Doomseeker/doomseeker-blobs/commits/70c550c129105304d0a415260f6575b2ea80c49e [^]'

(0022639) Zalewa (developer) 2023-01-05 12:08	Since there are no further remarks I consider this as resolved.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2022-09-07 12:13	WubTheCaptain	New Issue
2022-09-07 12:22	WubTheCaptain	Note Added: 0022368
2022-09-07 12:42	WubTheCaptain	Note Added: 0022369
2022-09-07 12:45	WubTheCaptain	Note Edited: 0022369	View Revisions
2022-09-07 12:45	WubTheCaptain	Note Edited: 0022369	View Revisions
2022-09-07 12:47	WubTheCaptain	Note Deleted: 0022369
2022-09-07 12:52	Zalewa	Note Added: 0022371
2022-09-07 12:52	Zalewa	Assigned To	=> Zalewa
2022-09-07 12:52	Zalewa	Status	new => acknowledged
2022-09-07 12:52	Zalewa	Note Edited: 0022371	View Revisions
2022-09-07 15:27	Zalewa	Note Added: 0022375
2022-09-07 15:27	Zalewa	Status	acknowledged => needs review
2022-09-10 14:30	Zalewa	Target Version	=> 1.4.0
2023-01-05 12:08	Zalewa	Note Added: 0022639
2023-01-05 12:08	Zalewa	Status	needs review => resolved
2023-01-05 12:08	Zalewa	Fixed in Version	=> 1.4.0
2023-01-05 12:08	Zalewa	Resolution	open => fixed
2024-11-03 19:12	Zalewa	Status	resolved => closed

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