Have you looked at BadgerFish for encoding your JSON objects? The
JAXBContext can be configured to use BadgerFish which handles XML
attributes and values. I think that BadgerFish uses @ symbols so you may
need to change that. It does however encode both attributes and elements
correctly.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Oded Hassidi <oded.hassidi_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> the issue is that my object (entity) defines type as an attribute and the
> state as element and when I send the request with the attribute second the
> object comes to the resource with the an empty attribute
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 15:30, John Yeary <johnyeary_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> JSON is a name=value pair mapping, so order is not important for that.
>> Your application as noted should be fine.
>>
>> If you need to have order, you may consider wrapping the objects in a
>> GenericEntity<List<?>> to maintain some ordering. In general, the arrays
>> created in JSON are ordered from the Java side of the application. So using
>> arrays will maintain order from the server side. I can not vouch for what
>> your client side code will do.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Oded Hassidi <oded.hassidi_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have Jersey and JAXB used for translating json and xml to objects.
>>> My objects define attributes and in json they go out with @ sign. In
>>> json as far as I know there is no importance to the order of the name,
>>> value pairs.
>>>
>>> The question is: if we define attribute do they break the above
>>> assumption?
>>> is this: {"event":{"state":"ended","@type":"state"}}
>>> different from this: {"event":{"@type":"state", "state":"ended"}}
>>> when jersey build the java object?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
>> though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
>> neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
>> that knows not victory nor defeat."
>> -- Theodore Roosevelt
>>
>
>
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