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

[Robert Markula]

Ries van Twisk wrote:
> Actually I don't understand why we need to fetch the complete XML at all???
> What is wrong with sending a query to TER and fetch the result in XML.

That's what I don't understand either. In the whole thread nobody 
mentions this as a possibility.
What was wrong with sending a query to TER? That solves almost all 
troubles on the client side and I can imagine that with TER mirroring, 
it wouldn't be too heavy (load-wise) on the server side. Plus, it would 
do away with the ugly need to update the extension list in EM manually 
to get the latest extensions.

> We just talk about 2000 records in a database (even if there where 
> 20.000 records), that should be doable in a snap.
> I search for news, and I get a XML feed with all extensions with news in 
> it (limited to let's say 200 extensions).
> 
> That XML can be parsed quickly with no big memery requirements and 
> displayed.
> I know they have been doing this to get the load of typo3.org, but 
> really this is the wrong method.
> Any database can handle and send at least 20-40 queries/sec, if 
> bandwidth is a problem then zip it up and send (like most webservers do 
> anyways).
> 
> Compare this : When I want to see a page on typo3.org, my browser 
> doesn't fetch a recursive version of the
> complete typo3.org, doesn't it? it just fetches the part I am interested 
> it.

+1 from a user perspective.

Cheers,
Ro