Preliminary documentation for Ice 3.7.1 Beta. Do not use in production applications. Refer to the space directory for other releases.

The Slice compilers can optionally generate checksums of Slice definitions. For slice2php, the --checksum option causes the compiler to generate checksums. The checksums are installed automatically when the PHP code is first parsed; no action is required by the application.

In order to verify a server's checksums, a client could simply compare the two array objects using a comparison operator. However, this is not feasible if it is possible that the server might return a superset of the client's checksums. A more general solution is to iterate over the local checksums as demonstrated below:

PHP
$clientChecksums = Ice\sliceChecksums();
$serverChecksums = ...
foreach($clientChecksums as $key => $value)
{
    if(!isset($serverChecksums[$key]))
    {
        // No match found for type id!
    }
    else if($clientChecksums[$key] != $serverChecksums[$key])
    {
        // Checksum mismatch!
    }
}

In this example, the client first verifies that the server's dictionary contains an entry for each Slice type ID, and then it proceeds to compare the checksums.

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