[fpc-devel] Rather large flaw in TJSONConfig component

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Op 2010-06-22 11:44, Michael Van Canneyt het geskryf:
>>
>> Nono.
>> We'll put a big warning 'Not concurrency safe' in the files.
>
> Yes, that is fine, and I understand that. I simply meant it as showing
> Henry how tiOPF did it for INI files - not mean as FPC's implementation
> must change as such.
>
>
>> can use another solution. We should provide this solution, but not in the
>> standard classes.
>
> Agreed. I'm going to be playing more with JSON in the coming weeks. I'll
> work on a thread-safe solution for it (and probably apply that same
> solution to the XMLConfig package too. I don't like having stacks of .xml
> or .json files per application. Thread-safe solution will be in a separate
> unit, in each case.

One of the drawbacks is that it will pull in thread support, and hence the C
library. But if you care to donate the code, I will be happy to include it
in FPC.

Michael.