[Phpmyadmin-devel] XML export

[Piotr Przybylski]

2011/7/15 Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>:
> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 23:59 +0200, Piotr Przybylski wrote:
>> 2011/7/14 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>:
>> > Le 2011-07-14 15:43, Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
>> >> 2011/7/14 Marc Delisle<marc at infomarc.info>:
>> >>> Le 2011-07-14 09:24, Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
>> >>>> 2011/7/14 Marc Delisle<marc at infomarc.info>:
>> >>>>> Le 2011-07-13 18:28, Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
>> >>>>>> Hi,
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Is XML export used at all? It was missing data escaping in many
>> >>>>>> places, and structure (table, function, ...) export was just broken. I
>> >>>>>> fixed it a bit, but there are still some problems that remain:
>> >>>>>> - escaping of table/db names and data in other encodings than ISO-8859-1
>> >>>>>> - it uses SHOW CREATE TABLE without any required fixes
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> File format itself is interesting. I don't expect XML Schema for it to
>> >>>>>> exist, but at least namespace usage should be consistent.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I think fixing this and rewriting output format to be more consistent
>> >>>>>> should appear on Tasks for junior developers. And maybe extending it
>> >>>>>> to output data in more concise format, eg.:
>> >>>>>> <table name="">
>> >>>>>> <row>
>> >>>>>> <column_name>value</column_name>
>> >>>>>> ...
>> >>>>>> </row>
>> >>>>>> ...
>> >>>>>> </table>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>> Piotr,
>> >>>>> XML export is probably used, how can we know?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Maybe nobody needs DDL in it or we have too few people using it to
>> >>>> report bugs :)
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> In your testing, was it just a problem in master or also in 3.4.x?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Also in 3.4.x (STABLE). Go to database `evil'"*/>` and try to export
>> >>>> table `evil'"*/>` with all options selected. You will get only data
>> >>>> (no structure) and invalid XML
>> >>>
>> >>> Can you backport your fixes to QA_3_4?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Yes. Just to be sure I don't break anything - what's the proper way of doing it?
>> >> 1. Create a local branch traacking origin/QA_3_4
>> >> 2. cherry-pick my commits to master
>> >> 3. push
>> >> ?
>> >>
>> >
>> > This should work.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> > Usually you should have started with QA_3_4, like explained on
>> > http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Git#Committing_fixes_to_several_branches.
>>
>> Too late now, I had to suffer from all these merge conflicts :)
>>
>> > The big mistake to avoid is merging master to QA_3_4!
>>
>> And this one would make an interesting merge conflict :D
>
> You forgot to merge QA_3_4 back into master after applying the fixes,
> which I guess you didn't actually cherry-pick due to the differences in
> whitespace distribution, so it left some interesting conflicts for the
> next person merging QA_3_4 into master...

Oops, sorry. Fortunately the correct way to resolve them was to use
the file from master.

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Piotr Przybylski