On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:11:16AM +0100, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>
> On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Tatu Saloranta wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Tom Schindl
> ><tom.schindl_at_bestsolution.at> wrote:
> >>Hi Jakub and Tatu,
> >...
> >>>Unless you wanted to use the low-level JSON approach and JSONArray/
> >>>JSONObject
> >>>classes, you would indeed need to leverage the JacksonJsonProvider
> >>>as suggested by Tatu.
> >>
> >>Thanks. Just included the JacksonJsonProvider into my application
> >>and it
> >>looks good so far. Would it be possible at all to bring in such a
> >>support to jersey itself?
> >>
> >>If yes I'd try provide you a patch for it but before I start
> >>searching
> >>through the code I'd like to know if this is even possible at or a
> >>limitation of underlying infrastructure.
> >
> >Concern so far has been with compatibility, that is, try to keep it
> >possible to use alternative backends.
> >JacksonJsonProvider actually could define META-INF/services definition
> >so that it would auto-register.
> >But the challenge is that then it would be difficult to change json
> >implementation to use one of built-in styles. That is why
> >jackson-jaxrs jar does not include service definition, and instead
> >it's necessary to register provider (which is just one-liner but
> >still).
> >
> >Since provider itself is a rather small thing (just a single class,
> >mostly doing plumbing), it would seem possible to add something
> >similar as an optional jersey package. And ideally make it
> >configurable using something similar to existing mechanisms.
> >
>
> That could be useful. Also i think a simple jackson-json sample would
> be really helpful. Happy to accept such contributions :-)
Just added jacksonjsonprovider example to Jersey. Will take several hours to make it
to the maven repo. Regarding the configuration option, as people here asked
for simplified configuration of JSON processing anyway, i think i can take this
as part of implementing that enhancement.
~Jakub
>
> Paul.
>
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