Ah, but the transformation from some internal serialized format to iCal
is an added level of complexity in your software, that if you are going
to need iCal yourself eventually, you don't need.
My experience shows me that using standard data formats, even between
modules of your internal architecture, really pays off down the line, in
many ways. Just my advice. iCal isn't really that complicated.
While there doesn't seem to be an exact standard for iCal in JSON, even
putting iCal in JSON in your own makes-sense way would be preferable to
a custom internal format, in my opinion. Just my opinion of course.
For your original question... I still don't have an answer, except to
say that offering serialized PHP objects on the wire seems like the
wrong solution to me, no matter what.
Jonathan
Cloutman, David wrote:
Ultimately, I probably will create a transformation to iCal, but
initially it isn't my goal. For internal use, I want to skip the
intermediate type, which really more complex than what my application or
Web site needs.
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mime type for PHP serialized objects
If you want to publish calendar event information, you should use
iCal/iCalendar instead of making up your own format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar => text/calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCal => application/calendar+xml
Jonathan
Cloutman, David wrote:
I have a quick question for any PHP developers out there.
I am writing a SOA application to manage my library's events calendar.
The basic idea is to create a public API that our web site or other
community organizations can use to query and consume information. I am
using JSON as the default output for information, but would like to
add
the option of outputting native serialized PHP data structures as
created by the serialized() function.
My question is, what mime type should I use for serialized PHP data?
The
best suggestion I saw through Google was
application/vnd.php.serialized,
which was posted as a proposal. I don't know if any standard was
adopted
though. Has anyone else thought about this issue?
- David
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