This sounds like a really good idea! But I'm not too sure about the namespace "Encode". Do you think there might be more opportunities for two-way transformation besides just encoding? I'm thinking gzip/deflate, encrypt/decrypt, etc.
-- Hector On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, OnyxRaven <onyxra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been doing some work with some of the symmetric Filters - especially > encryption and urlencoding. What I've come up with is a more 'formal' > class > which encompasses and encoder and a decoder. > > The idea is that the same Zend_Encoder based class should be just an > identity to the value passed in. > > (given scalar $x, $params to Crypt;) > $enc = new Zend_Encoder_Crypt($params); > $y1 = $enc->encode($x); > $y2 = $enc->decode($y1); > assert($x === $y); > > An Encoder could easily be just a composition of Filter objects. > > Encoder chaining would run encode() in the order specified in the chain, > but > decode() would run in reverse order. > > $enc->addEncoder(Zend_Encoder_Base64) > $enc->addEncoder(Zend_Encoder_UrlEncode); > $enc->encode(); // runs Base64->encode(); UrlEncode->encode(); > $enc->decode(); // runs UrlEncode->decode(); Base64->decode(); > > Is this a valuable class? If so, I'll happily put together the proposal > and > start up some basic implementations. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/idea-Zend-Encoder-tp1749646p1749646.html > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
