Cross-client memcached compatibility

[Kieran Benton]

That sounds like a plan then. How many flags values are "free"? Maybe we could identify one specifically for some specific kind of cross platform serialization method (again I'm thinking json although not necessarily that). 

My thinking is to make it easier for the clients to put together something truly cross platform out of the box so to speak and not to rely on the user of the library to setup the correct hooks. Unless I minsunderstood what you said :)


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From: Aaron Stone <aaron at serendipity.cx>
To: Kieran Benton
Cc: memcached at lists.danga.com <memcached at lists.danga.com>
Sent: Wed Jan 30 08:25:42 2008
Subject: Re: Cross-client memcached compatibility

I think it would make sense to flag for serialization method -- rather
than trying to pick or define a single serialization method for all
clients, the clients simply flag with the method they used.

Most languages have libraries available to interpret most other
languages' native serialization, so I think we can leverage that via
callbacks and flexible data type flags.

Aaron


On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 07:50 +0000, Kieran Benton wrote:
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> How about standardising on something like json? Either that or we're
> basically going to have to put a custom serialization rules together
> each client has to follow?
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> On Jan 29, 2008, at 21:40, dormando wrote:
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> > Wonder if we can just put up a list of flag recommendations (and 
> > storage mediums?) and see if it catches on? Or perhaps pisses 
> > someone off enough to provoke discussion?
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> 
>         Makes sense to me.
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>         The most controversial part would be lists and dictionaries
> since 
> they nest types.
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> --
> Dustin Sallings
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