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Remove temporary buffer in ConfigFile.ino #8298

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Hi,

Thank you guys for maintaining this critical piece of software that is at the heart of so many projects 👍

This PR simplifies the ConfigFile.ino example by removing the temporary buffer and passing the File directly to deserializeJson().

When reading from a Stream, using a temporary buffer is counterproductive because it complexifies the code and increases memory usage. It's also a source of confusion because it can create dangling pointers in the JsonDocument.
The only benefit of using a buffer is the reading speed, but I don't think speed is the focus in this example; if it were, it would use a buffer in saveConfig() too.

By the way, this example has been the origin of many issues in ArduinoJson's tracker:

It seems that I've been doing the customer service for this example, so I wonder if it's wise to keep it considering there is a comparable example in ArduinoJson, with the differences that it uses SD instead of LittleFS and it shows how to apply best practices by copying the data in a struct.

Please let me know what you think.

Best regards,
Benoit

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d-a-v commented Sep 3, 2021

so I wonder if it's wise to keep it
Please let me know what you think.

The least we could do is to ask you to add a comment / link to your example from within this example.

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@bblanchon can you please merge this with current head? Your GH settings don't allow us to update this PR, and it;s out of date so can't merge.

@bblanchon bblanchon force-pushed the remove-buffer-in-configfile-example branch from 66ac3b1 to 16f4f4e Compare September 5, 2021 07:57
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d-a-v commented Sep 14, 2021

I suggest to add this comment:

  #include <ArduinoJson.h>
  #include "FS.h"
  #include <LittleFS.h>

+ // more and possibly updated information can be found at:
+ // https://arduinojson.org/v6/example/config/

  bool loadConfig() {

When reading from a `Stream`, like `File`, using a temporary buffer is counterproductive because it complexifies the code and increases memory usage.
It's also a source of confusion because it can create dangling pointers in the `JsonDocument`.
The only benefit of using a buffer is the reading speed, but I don't think speed is the focus in this example; if it were, it would use a buffer in `saveConfig()` too.
@bblanchon bblanchon force-pushed the remove-buffer-in-configfile-example branch from 16f4f4e to ada9fe9 Compare September 16, 2021 07:46
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I amended the commit to include the comments suggested by @d-a-v.

@d-a-v d-a-v merged commit 612e7ff into esp8266:master Sep 16, 2021
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