[OSM-dev] 0.5 API: /api/0.5/user/preferences, values truncated to 256 chars

[Shaun McDonald]

Chris Browet wrote:
>
>     You can look at the code just as easily as we can...
>
> Yep. Actually, the db fields are VARCHAR(255) so that's the "problem". 
> I'll change the wiki page for 0.5.
>
> Is something different foreseen for 0.6, whether suppressing the 150 
> entries limitation or the 255 char limitation?
>
> The goal is to store Merkaartor preferences this way, for people 
> having different machines. As we have already more than 100 prefs, it 
> doesn't seem right to use 2/3 of the available entries just for 
> Merkaartor.
> The other idea was to use one entry with a serialized preference list, 
> but that will use more than 255 chars.
>

How about only storing the preferences that are different to the default?
Increasing from the 150 entries is the most likely.

Shaun

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