RE: [Madeleine-devel] Before the release of 0.7

[Stephen S. <ste...@ma...>]

> So the only time we really need the format detection is when=20
> someone is
> using the wrong settings?..
> Couldn't we instead make it the inverse, as a fallback when the
> marshaller that was set didn't work? Maybe even output a warning about
> it. It feels like these safeguards shouldn't have to be used when
> everything is "right".

Actually I already fixed it so it detects inside the gzip.

It's not exactly the wrong settings - if you are changing from one
marshaller to another you might just want to start up the system with =
the
new marshaller setting, and have it all work nicely because it =
autodetected
the previous file format.  I think this is quite a practical approach. =20

At the moment I detect first, and use supplied marshaller if that fails =
(on
the grounds that you might be changing marshaller).

Alternative is to use supplied marshaller, and if that fails use =
detection -
I could wrap the loading using the supplied marshaller with a =
begin/rescue
and try to detect in the rescue.

Hmm, maybe in most cases the try first then detect approach will be more
efficient.

Stephen.