FW: Request for Interfaces

ad. serializeable interface: we could define a serializer interface which exports tokenizers for the most common types and this could be passed to the serializeable callback function so each object/resource could serialize itself easily without knowing which type of serializer is used. this is getting a bit trickier when it comes to unserialization because the object would have to implement the serializer interface itself and the deserializer serializes itself into an object/resource using the object/resources serializer. this would be the most generic and simple way i can think of. it sounds a bit more complex than it is. e.g. if a resource serializes itself only as a couple of string tokens it also will only have to implement the string tokenizer function in its serializer interface for unserialization. so no unnecessary typing is needed. harald ps.: jani, look, no pgp ! > "Harald Radi" <harald.radi@nme.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:<001d01c1ebb6$04291120$a8eafea9@KNOFFL>... > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Following on from my RFC about an interface mechanism, what > we really > > need is some brainstorming on what interfaces we need or > would like to > > > have in PHP. I'm aiming at PHP 5. > > sounds very interesting and covers with the ideas i proposed > a few months ago about creating 'extension families' like > db-apis, rpc-apis, xml-processing, payment-apis which have a > common set of php-api functions. > > > The following concepts have already been mentioned either > by myself or > > others as being something we'd like to see in PHP: > > > > DOM XML nodes/documents ---> XSLT processor. > > Image Handle --> PDF, SWF or some other extension with image > > embedding/processing. Socket / Network "behaviours" for streams. > > Memory Buffer accessors for streams (direct access to memory streams > > buffers, or access to file contents via mmap or some other > mechanism). > > database handle > rpc handle (i'm working on this at the moment and i'd like to > adopt you interface stuff) serializeable (could be a stock > interface which markes resources that can be safely > serialized/unserialized) ... i had a few more ideas but i > don't remember yet, i have to look up my mail archive > > are these interfaces only meant to be applied to resources or > are they appliable to zend_class_entries as well ? this would > be what i need. > > nice work. +1 > > harald > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 7.0.4 > > iQA/AwUBPMbsL61+myS9SSHxEQL3qgCgrlKBbX80xuZBYoFfOVZFBR34wyoAn0Rb > B21nA79VbBATkcjVQ/zR02ZB > =zGjl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---------- > >