[ZendTo] Feature request: optional units on some preferences

[Jules]

Hi Massimo,

Fair point.
Sadly they are also supposed to be powers of 10 and not 2.
And I never realised that Z was smaller than Y and not the other way 
round. That's bonkers!

Will people always get the case right, even when they never read the 
instructions?
Or do I only insist on "m" and "M" having the right case, and ignore the 
case on all the others?
Bit awkward. Only other option is to infer whether it's a byte count or 
a time duration from the name of the setting (/bytes/i ==> byte count, 
rules like that).

Cheers,
Jules.

On Thu 10/12/20 16:49, Massimo Forni wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just to point out that in the SI the Mega, Giga, etc are all capital 
> letters, this way you can still use ‘m’ for minutes
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes>
>
> best regards
>
> *From:*ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to> *On Behalf Of *Jules via ZendTo
> *Sent:* giovedì 10 dicembre 2020 17:42
> *To:* ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to>
> *Cc:* Jules <Jules at Zend.To>
> *Subject:* Re: [ZendTo] Feature request: optional units on some 
> preferences
>
> John and others,
>
> I didn't ignore this, I just mentally added it to the list without 
> remembering to reply to you about it! :-/
>
> I should be able to do hours and days and stuff like that too.
> So that it matches with what happens in the code already, can we agree 
> to use 1024, 1024^2, 1024^3 etc as the K, M and G multiples?
> For times I could allow s, h, d, w.
>
> So the multipliers would be (ignoring case):
> k = 1024
> m = 1024*1024
> g = 1024*1024*1024
> s = 1
> h = 60*60
> d = 60*60*24
> w = 60*60*24*7
>
> Are there any I have missed (I'm avoiding minutes in favour of megs).
>
> The syntax would have to change in the preferences.php file where you 
> chose to use a suffix, as
>     'maxBytesForDropoff' => *24G*,
> is not valid PHP, it would need to be
>     'maxBytesForDropoff' => *'24G'*,
> but you would only need the quotes round ones where you chose to use a 
> suffix.
>
> Sound okay to everyone?
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
> On Tue 17/11/20 19:13, John Thurston via ZendTo wrote:
>
>     Computers are good at doing math. Can we have the option of
>     including units on some preferences?
>
>     I'm thinking, particularly, about:
>       maxBytesForDropoff
>       maxBytesForFile
>       maxBytesForChecksum
>       maxBytesForEncryption
>
>     These are currently specified in bytes. This is generally a long
>     number which is hard to read and easy to stumble over. May we have
>     the default continue to be "number of bytes" but have it accept an
>     optional unit-suffix? For example:
>       'maxBytesForDropoff'   => 25769790582,
>     could be specified as:
>       'maxBytesForDropoff'   => 24G,
>
>     Old preferences would continue to work, and new preferences would
>     be easier to read.
>
>
>
> Jules
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