sproutwp/sprout_identity

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A module that helps determine the unique, collective identity of objects within an array.

dev-master 2019-06-12 14:40 UTC

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• collections
• identity
• objects
• array identity
• array serialization

README

A package that helps you determine the identity of objects in an array. The Sprout Framework almost exclusively works with arrays of objects and it wants / needs to have an unique handle for each object, as well as a "group identity" readily available at all times.

Use Cases

You generate output from a lot of objects, but instead of doing it on every request, you just get that output from the database.

You have about 50-60 objects, for example, our SuggestionsModule allows developers to register their own suggestions to be made to whoever is using a theme. Each suggestion has to do a few checks which might be heavy or not, then generate output. Imagine if this happens on a shared server, on every request. As you can see, this module will initially compute the identity of the said collection of objects, keep track of it, re-compute it on every request but never re-execute the heavy code.

If it detectes that a new object was added to the collection, it re-builds both the indentity and it lets the code run.

This works amazing with our other module, SproutCache.