[Gambas-devel] gb.memcached

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 26/09/2012 06:50, Sebastian Kulesz a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> In rev 5206 i added a memcached client. It's fully implemented and
> works perfect, except for one thing, i only managed to store strings
> :(
>
> It's not that i could not store other datatypes, in fact, it can
> (strings are easy to debug), but the memcached server relies in the
> client to send the byte size of the data it has to store, which proved
> to be really hard to calculate. It should be trivial to also implement
> other native datatypes (i.e. integers, floats, etc) with a *really
> big* if structure. But the problem was with arrays and collections.
> Although the interpreter can serialize the objects, i *previously*
> need to send the byte size of the blob.
>
> If you look at the code, you will see that in the Store() function i
> hard coded an if statement to calculate the offset based on the length
> of the string (using the "Binary Data Representation" wiki page [0] ).
> The same could be done with integers, for example, but couldn't find a
> way to do this for objects.
>
> My question is: Would it be possible to expose the (de)serialization
> functions and return the blob as an utf-8 string? It would then be
> trivial to implement the rest
>
> In the meantime, you are free to play only with strings ;)
>
> Thanks!
>
> [0] http://gambasdoc.org/help/cat/datarep?v3
>

What's the use of memcached?

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Benoît Minisini