Erik Massop wrote:
- don't ask the client to strtol all numeric properties from strings!
we should maybe use some heuristic server-side to determine what
type to wrap in the xmmsv_t. could use the content and/or hardcoded
or even dynamic mapping of property->type for that.
We have three options:
- Allow strings to be converted to ints under the hood in the clientlib
- Add an extra column in the database recording the type
- Chose a type based on the property's name. (Requires us to fetch
this always.)
- Wait for S4.
To me the only thing that would make sense is that if the property was
set by xmms_xform_metadata_set_int it should be an int, and if it was
set with xmms_xform_metadata_set_str it should be a string. Without any
exceptions. I guess the only of the alternatives that handles that
properly is adding an extra column (either a type column, or an new
value_int column, thats would be NULL for strings (but the value column
would always contain the string representation if that helps querying)).
anders
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