Re: [Freecol-developers] About XML, again

[Michael T. P. <mp...@co...>]

On Sun, 29 May 2011 05:36:52 PM Michael Vehrs wrote:
> "emacs -batch" maybe?

That would be nice, but I was planning to look closely at the code, so an 
edit-macro will probably suffice.

> But I do know which additional features I would like the redesigned
> network layer to have: It should avoid all transformations between DOM
> and StAX,

Agreed.  That is fundamental.

> and it should avoid XML serialization when possible. The AI
> players, as well as the human player in the case of a single-player
> game, are all local. They should use plain old java objects and some
> kind of a message queue rather than the whole marshal -> send -> receive
> -> unmarshal shebang. 

I wonder if we could just feed the ChangeSets direct to the clients.
Add an "apply" method to the ChangeSet-subtypes... have to look into that, as 
it would at least be a bit more structured than the current ad hoc nature of 
the client InGameInputHandler.

> The DummyConnection class used by the AI already
> skips the network, but it still does the marshalling and unmarshalling.

Do we use DummyConnection for single-players?  If not, that should be a fairly 
easy step.

However, going in the other direction, I am still hoping one day to see full-
client AIs that do not cheat, because they can't.

Cheers,
Mike Pope