Previously, we were loading country info from a JSON file. This
changes it to use PHP files instead. It also caches these resources
across calls avoiding these files to be loaded more than once
per process.
Inside the "data/" directory, we have files with lists of subdivisions
that need to be updated. We have to update them manually, or we automate
that task with a script and GitHub actions.
The two options are very time consuming and also not ideal. We don't
want to deal with that problem and, thinking that the user of this
library may want to show the data that we validate, we should create a
whole library to make it more usable.
The "sokil/php-isocodes" is a simple library that, even supports
translations. It's frequently updated and has gone to major performance
updates.
I am not fond of the idea of requiring an external library to install
Validation, as I have seen that gone wrong before [1]. Ideally, that
would be an optional dependency for people who would like to use those
rules, but to make that happen, we need to release a MAJOR version.
[1]: d072b4de6a
Signed-off-by: Henrique Moody <henriquemoody@gmail.com>
To update the list of subdivisions, I decided to use the iso-codes [1]
instead of GeoNames [2] as it seems like that one is more often updated.
This commit will also create a Bash script to update that list in the
future.
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes
[2]: http://www.geonames.org/
Signed-off-by: Henrique Moody <henriquemoody@gmail.com>
To update the list of countries, I decided to use the iso-codes [1]
instead of GeoNames [2] as it seems like that one is more often updated.
This commit will also create a Bash script to update that list in the
future.
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes
[2]: http://www.geonames.org/
Signed-off-by: Henrique Moody <henriquemoody@gmail.com>
