Inexpensive class identifier and ID convertion

Friday 06 June 2008 12:39:30 pm

Hello there,

Is there an inexpensive method of converting class IDs to identifiers and identifiers to IDs?
There seems to be something in the cache dir, that looks like this:

<?php
$identifier_hash = array( "folder" => "1",
                          "user_group" => "3",
                          "user" => "4",
                          "image" => "5",
                          "link" => "11",
                          "file" => "12",
                          "comment" => "13",
                          "common_ini_settings" => "14",
                          "template_look" => "15"
                          ... );
?>

And the only converting method using this is eZContentObjectTreeNode::classIDByIdentifier()... Couldn't spot the opposite...

Shouldn't this be held somewhere in the session, so that conversion for any purposes doesn't require file system or db access?

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Saturday 07 June 2008 10:25:25 pm

Hi Kristof,

I've just added an enhancement request:
http://issues.ez.no/IssueView.php?Id=13157&

As far as performance gain, you might be right, but think of a situation, where I need that for ten independent extensions, because each one makes use of such conversion. It would be much better to have a uniform tool for that to rely on.

Thanks,
Piotrek

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