On Feb 11, 2008 8:50 AM, dormando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran wrote: > > > If the user would want to use several serialization formats, she > would > > > have to use some prefix to encode the info on the used format. > And it > > > seems it can't be made compatible with prefix-unaware clients. > > > > Just to note that I'm not ignoring this. I have no constructive > input > > past this point :) Have you tried implementing any of this yet? > > > > > > I've successfully implemented a cross-platform solution between the > > Enyim.Memcached C# client and the Java Spy.Net client after these > > discussions. Using the existing Transcoder framework built into the > > Java client and by providing a patch for the C# client, it works > > beautifully for me, however it isn't a suitable approach for a wider > > cross-platform hit, hopefully if Enyim accepts my patch it will be > > trivial to achieve this between C# + Java, then there just needs to be > > some convincing of all client developers that it is a worthwhile goal :) > > > > (Based upon Tomash' assertion that flags should effectively *only* be > > used to mark things as compressed (and|or) serializable, if they're not > > marked as serialized then the stored cache data is treated as a raw > > array of bytes, otherwise the transcoder serialisation routine inspects > > the first byte (i.e. the true data flags shifted out of the memcached > > flag and into the cached data, which does make sense really) ) > > > > - Ciaran > > Could you be convinced to start a new wiki page with code examples (or > links to them at least) along with an overview of exactly what you're > doing? If we want to build standards it needs to be visible in a place > where we can start tweaking it and add notes. I don't have working code, > so I'm hoping you'll be generous :)
What, you mean a bit like [1] ? :) I did that a while back, working code's fine and of course I'm happy to drop whatever in to help (its in my interest to have memcached work in a nice cross-platform way as thats how I'm trying to use it!), but I don't want to drop any code examples there just as yet because the requisite patches for the C# client I'm currently using haven't been accepted yet, and they may go a different way (hopefully not *too* different however!) Reading the current utf-8-in-perl discussion however it seems that this is a directly competing requirement to mine *sigh*, in this approach it seems that people are happy to use the flags to encode serialisation specific information ? [1]http://www.eu.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi?cross_platform_serialisation_support > > > -Dormando > -- - Ciaran
