MsgPack as separate project

[ghost]

Hi,

1. Thank you for amazing work.
2. Your binary protocol is based on MessagePack but it is hardcoded in "tarantool-php" ext, I suggest to move it to a separate PECL ext, I understand that this is out of scope of this project, but I think it will help community. Official php msgpack extension is very buggy and seam that has been abandoned only a good alternative is rybakit/msgpack.php but it is written in Pure PHP and is less performance (after some tests with big data)

[bigbes]

Thank you, @umbri. It's nice to hear.

But I'd planned to move from my own MsgPack implementation to https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-php before. Why do you think it's buggy?

[ghost]

@bigbes,
Here: issue #105 and Here issue #107
And this is only what I found, more then that, I write this issues and no response, and my pull request as well is ignored, pull #106,
I changed only README and travis fail :(

There are some very useful features that was proposed by @rybakit feature and others ~ 1 year ago, and no changes

I hope this message will inspire you to do a right move :)

[rybakit]

I would like to switch to msgpack/msgpack-php as well. Imho, extracting msgpack from tarantool-php to a separate extension will not solve anything, as it has more or less the same problems - no bin/str/ext/streaming/object packing support (correct me if I'm wrong).

I was more thinking about injecting a custom msgpack handler by implementing an interface, like it's done for example for php sessions: http://php.net/manual/en/class.sessionhandlerinterface.php.
So a user can choose if he/she wants to use the default msgpack library or a different one. I did it for the pure php client, but I don't know how useful this feature will be for the tarantool-php extension.

it is written in Pure PHP and is less performance (after some tests with big data)

@umbri Can you share your benchmarks? In a real life app you will not notice any difference except you are working with very large arrays/strings and doing millions of iterations in a loop or using php < 7.0 ;) In some edge cases the pure version even outperforms the pecl extension.

[ghost]

@rybakit

1. Thank you for your work.

2. The main problem is that msgpack/msgpack-php is not supported, there are many good proposal how to improve it, even README is useless, I looked in tests to find streaming features, as this was the main argument to choose Message Pack. So if someone can rewrite it, I will be happy to help them/him.

3. I run some tests (synthetic) with json, pecl MsgPack, @rybakit MsgPack, with php 7.0.12, on small data ~ same results, on big data ~400% on @rybakit MsgPack, but json was ~11000% (sorry about few details, maybe one day I will share Tests, need some cleaning)

4. I plan in few weeks to start using @rybakit MsgPack in production, and i will have real world stats.

5. Thank you for @rybakit MsgPack 👍