[TYPO3-dev] EM, TER2, XML and other animals

[Martin Kutschker]

Chi Hoang schrieb:
> Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> 
>> Now:
>>
>> TER transforms extension list into XML
>> TER sends XML (as zipped file)
>> Client parses XML into array (after unzipping)
>>
>> Future:
>>
>> TER transforms extsion list into array
>> TER sends serialized array (as zipped file)
>> Client unserializes array (after unzipping)
>>
>> No need to handle, parse or do anything client-wise. Just forget about 
>> the XML. It's unnecessary overhead.
> 
> You don't understand the problem. The array is too big to unserialize at 
> once.

As far as I undertsood it's too big to parse with the XML parser. But if 
it's so large that even unserialzing fails the more I'd think of another 
mechanism to distribute the data.

But if nobody comes up with another idea, I'd use your version (with a few 
comments why all of this splitting, etc happens)

The only request is that the code should use uinique temp. names. Neither 
extensions.xml.gz nor extensions.bin are safe.

Masi