Move to XML serialization
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tutorius |
Fix Released
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High
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JC | ||
Bug Description
Regarding the serialization of the tutorials, we decided to move the implementation from a pickle + headers format that we called TML to the more standard XML. Why?
- Security
Pickled objects can contain arbitrary code. We do not want to share executable code. We want to share elements of the data model. In this context, the XML format excanges only data and no executable code.
- Editability by hand
As devs, we are definitely tempted to go and edit bits and pieces of the tutorials right inside the file instead of going through the editor. Pickle does not allow edition as easily as XML does.
- Platform independance
Since XML is just text, it is strictly platform independent. This might not apply as well to pickle.
So this is why we would prefer a XML based file format instead of the binary pickle.
| Changed in tutorius: | |
| assignee: | nobody → savard-jean-christophe |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| milestone: | none → 0.2-first-public-demo |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: core serializer |
| Simon Poirier (simpoir) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in tutorius: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Changed in tutorius: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
this was mostly done by JC and reviewed with some fixes and cleanup by me.
Trunk now includes stable version of the xml serializer