Ticket #35 (new Enhancement (Feature request, RFE))
Opened 6 years ago
Allow out of band transmission of vCard picture and logo
| Reported by: | benoitg | Owned by: | benoitg |
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| Priority: | critical | Milestone: | 1.0 release |
| Component: | Import/export | Keywords: | |
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Description
The vCard standard allows transmitting pictures and logos either as links or embeeded in the vCard record. unfortunately, this provokes massive scaling issues when exporting large numbers of LOM records (when sending ECL resultsets for examples), as it results in huge XML files, which libxml can't handle efficiently. In addition transmitting this over the network has massive bandwidth requirements. For this reason, the number of results for ECL had to be temporarily limited to 20.
As almost no current repositories on the ECL network supports vCard in a meaningfull way anyway, an elegant, temporary solution is to allow converting embeeded pictures to links on the fly. This will considerably reduce the amount of data to transfer, ans will make it more readable for non vCard compliant repositories.
This depends on ticket:14
