[KPhotoAlbum] KPhotoAlbum - mailing list and export suggestion with code

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Hi,


On Dienstag, 21. November 2017 21:59:18 CET Samuel Kay wrote:
> I will try to use the reply-all function.
> Can someone tell me if my email arrive in the mailing list ?

I've asked Jesper to manually subscribe you. He's quite a busy man, so please 
bear with us if it takes some time.


> I have create the issues on the github for the three improvement you
> suggested. ( https://github.com/Keuronde/KPhotoAlbum_Export )

Cool.

> >>> Also, why export it to JSON, rather than just use the XML that already
> >>> exists?
> >> 
> >> My first question was to know if KPhotoAlbum had already something
> >> like that for its export. So you confirm you don't have it yet ?
> > 
> > I don't know offhand.  I know that there's an Android app that does
> > this, albeit by a very different mechanism.

No. The only export feature we have is for the .kim files (which are basically 
a simpler version of an older index.xml format).

The Android app is something different - it connects to a running KPhotoAlbum 
which acts as a server (using a binary protocol).

> >> JSON seems simpler to manage for me, but I didn't realize that
> >> javascript was obviously quite good at managing xml file. I will
> >> have a look at it and try to get a version working directly with
> >> KPhotoAlbum files.

Regarding the choice of JSON: seems reasonable to me.
Parsing a JSON format that was optimized for the task (and can be parsed 
directly using JavaScript) is way easier and performs better(?) than using the 
index.xml file format.

That's not to say that parsing the XML file format directly is not worthwhile 
;-) But I don't think that would be a showstopper…


> > The only question is how stable the XML file format is (there are some
> > things I want to change for performance reasons).  And note that there
> > are two XML file formats: the human-readable one and the compressed
> > one, which stores categories attached to images differently.

We generally try not to change the file format gratuitously.

I take it that you know about the file "documentation/database-layout.md" in 
the git repo?

Cheers,
  Johannes