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To: "'Lukas Kahwe Smith'" <mls@pooteeweet.org>,
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:42:07 +0400
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Subject: RE: using arrays instead of stdClass
From: dmitry@zend.com ("Dmitry Stogov")
References: <46652DA3.3030909@pooteeweet.org>

Hi Lukas,

I don't like to increase complexity of ext/soap with additional options.
It is already complex enough and simple object <-> array conversion doesn't
provide additional abilities.

I don't understand how ext/soap related to APC.

Thanks. Dmitry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lukas Kahwe Smith [mailto:mls@pooteeweet.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:32 PM
> To: PHP Developers Mailing List; Dmitry Stogov
> Subject: using arrays instead of stdClass
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Hopefully I am not overlooking something here, but I never really 
> appreciated the fact that all my complex types are returned 
> as stdClass 
> instances by default. Of course you can override this with custom 
> classes via the classmap, but I would much prefer simple 
> boring arrays.
> 
> This has now become particularly relevant to me as APC seems 
> to be less 
> optimized for handling objects and specifically seems to be buggy 
> handling stdClass [1].
> 
> @Dmitry: Could we add yet another option to the soap server 
> class to be 
> able to force array's instead of stdClass?
> 
> regards,
> Lukas
> 
> [1] http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=8118
>