Ported: Request #58369 import/export of variables

[nickl-]

Request #58369 import/export of variables Submitted: 2008-10-07 02:43 UTC Modified: 2008-10-20 01:07 UTC
Votes: 1 Avg. Score: 3.0 ± 0.0 Reproduced: 1 of 1 (100.0%) Same Version: 1 (100.0%) Same OS: 1 (100.0%) From: christoph dot hintermueller at psi dot ch Assigned: jon Status: Assigned Package: python (PECL) PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: Linux Private report: No CVE-ID:

[2008-10-07 02:43 UTC] christoph dot hintermueller at psi dot ch

Description:

How far are the efforts on implementing shared import/export of variables. Half a year ago when i sent a patch which reactivated the code which implements a copy on import/export mechanisms for variables which are used by both Python and PHP. I do agree that is not the best solution as it consumes the memory twice and does not allow to track if a variable is reexported/reimported from/to python. At the moment all variables which are not boolean, integger, float or string seem to be converted to a string which can be brought back to life by means of eval command. Which is an even worse approach then the copy on import/export.

Thus would you support the following following 3 Step apporach to get from the current situation where only simply types are properly shared to a full share on import/export approach.

1. Officially reactivate the copy on export/import mechanism and clearly mark it as temporary solution, or at least provide it as non supported non official patch. Whichcan be downloaded separatly from the PECL page but may not be usable with newer PiP versions and deffinitly not with those using step 2 for importing/exporting variables to/from Python.
2. Implement wrapper classes properly mapping PHP zvalues to python classes behaving like the python types coresponding to the PHP type. (wrap on import) 2b) Implement share on export by copying the python variable to a zvalue and replacing the original python value by its reimported PHP counterpart.
3. Implement ture share on export: would require how to make a python object appear as zvalue which behaves like native PHP zvalues.

Is the above approach possible at all how difficult would it be and how power full would it be?

Xris