[Koha] Saving MARC records very slow

[Joe Atzberger]

I find it totally undesirable to make or maintain any changes in the
cataloging module for the purpose of going HTML-only.   Your sense of
server-side processing advantage may or may not translate to an advantage in
actual environment constraints.   Consider that adding a repeatable field
would have to constitute a new request and response for each element,
parsing the marcxl each time, aggregating form state changes in some yet
undefined table.  The server might validate the end results faster, but
getting there just became 30 times as expensive and you still need to round
trip to the server to get the results.

I'd wager that exactly zero of our clients would prefer scriptless
cataloguing, and would likewise be upset for Koha to sacrifice scripted
features for it.

Cataloging is already a huge amount of logic. Duplicating the plugins to
operate cleanly as server-side validators would be a major undertaking in
itself, and be more likely to introduce runtime warnings and fatals.

Sent from my phone,b/c my power is out!
--joe

On Jun 29, 2009 7:53 PM, "Rick Welykochy" <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:

Cab Vinton wrote: > This was covered on the list a while back -- in Firefox
it was taking > 40-50 s...
As pointed out, this is because of Javascript.

Question: can Koha operate properly with JS disabled? If not, why not?

Observation: JS is quite slow compared the server itself. Perhaps the
*HUGE* task of validating a MARC save could be (optionally) left to
the server to validate.


cheers
rickw



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