> > > 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 > > > -Dormando > > -- - Ciaran
