[Typo3-dev] introducing the fileConversion service

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Robert Fink wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to suggest a new service type called "fileConversion". It should 
> define an API to extensions for converting files between different formats 
> (for example doc2pdf, sxw2pdf, sxw2doc, etc.). Becaue this might become a 
> fundamental service for many extensions (DAM, General Office Displayer, ...), 
> i want to share my suggestions and start a discussion about the 
> fileConversion-API.
> 
> Any comments are welcome!

subtype naming:

how abot "from:to"? A colon is an unlikely character to appear in a file 
format. And I'd drop the three char conventoin. So something like 
"bz2:gzip" would be valid.

input:

I guess "data" means the converter will get a blob in a PHP variable. 
"filePath" will mean a path to a file to read from. How about making 
this a "url"? So we could read from arbitrary sources not just the 
filesystem.

Masi