Ok, let step back. Before all *technically* I fully agree with you. Why I
defend a different position is from my experience a lot of people will not
be able to use such an API so i'm trying to ensure our API is adopted
whatever use case we support.
Secondly the fact jsonp doesnt support writeKey()writeValue() doesnt
prevent us to do it (we actually do since we have the key before the value
in the mapper model ;)).
It means I think we can go for Eugen proposal BUT to support my case too we
would need a subclass/abstract impl giving the JsonReader (read(parser,
Object) doesn't work, see polymorphism thread).
Would it be a good compromise?
Romain Manni-Bucau
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2016-05-10 0:46 GMT+02:00 Eugen Cepoi <cepoi.eugen_at_gmail.com>:
> Ahh damn I remember now... in jsonp we have a separate methods to be used
> inside objects which takes the key and others without the key, but you
> can't first write the key and then write the value...which sucks. I should
> have insisted more on that :p
>
> So in short my comment is irrelevant as I was assuming that we have
> writeName+writeValue methods in JsonGenerator...so yeah in this case there
> is no choice, we need serialize methods that take a key and another that
> doesn't... :(
>
> 2016-05-09 15:22 GMT-07:00 Dmitry Kornilov <dmitry.kornilov_at_oracle.com>:
>
>>
>> I also think that passing jsonp parser/generator as an argument is OK.
>>> The question here is that we are forcing implementations to use
>>> parser/generator. What if (as Romain mentioned somewhere in this thread)
>>> some implementations will use reader/writer as a parsing mechanism? Shall
>>> we consider this option? Folks, I need you opinion here.
>>>
>>>
>> JsonReader/writer just deal with the full dom structures, to get a dom
>> structure one could simply do ctx.deserialize(JsonObject.class, stream).
>> So I think it is just fine and is the right thing to do: use the low
>> level jsonp api.
>>
>>
>> Agree.
>>
>> But there is another use case. What if we have a list inside an object we
>>> are serializing.
>>>
>>> public class Create {
>>> public List items;
>>> }
>>>
>>> For some reason we don’t want to serialize items list using
>>> context.serialize(“items”, crate.items, generator).
>>> We want to serialize each item manually in a cycle.
>>>
>>> generator.writeStartArray();
>>> for (Object item in crate.items) {
>>> // Ooops! We don’t have a method to write an object without a key in
>>> SerializationContext
>>> // It should be something like this
>>> *context.serialize(item, generator); // This is a new method to add I
>>> was talking about*
>>> }
>>> generator.writeEnd();
>>>
>>>
>> Not sure if I followed everything (I have been busy with other things
>> lately), but IMO the context should not provide different methods for
>> arrays, objects etc. Only one that takes an object, a generator and
>> eventually a type (if we want to allow a user to say serialize object of
>> type B but using his super type A). One could pass to it arrays, lists,
>> pojos, primitives, whatever he wants and it will get serialized/deser using
>> the registered serializers for that type.
>> I hope I am not adding more confusion here…if you want some code examples
>> let me know.
>>
>>
>> Yes, I think we have some misunderstanding here. Below I copied our
>> latest version of SerializationContext interface to make it clear. As you
>> see there are no methods for arrays, lists, etc. The method I was talking
>> about above is marked bold.
>>
>> public interface SerializationContext {
>>
>> /**
>> * Serializes arbitrary object to JSON, using current {_at_link
>> javax.json.stream.JsonGenerator} instance.
>> *
>> * @param key JSON key name
>> * @param object object to serialize
>> * @param generator JSONP generator to serialize with
>> * @param <T> Type of serialized object
>> */
>> <T> void serialize(String key, T object, JsonGenerator generator);
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * /** * Serializes arbitrary object to JSON, using current {_at_link
>> javax.json.stream.JsonGenerator} instance. * * @param object object
>> to serialize * @param generator JSONP generator to serialize with *
>> @param <T> Type of serialized object */ <T> void serialize(T object,
>> JsonGenerator generator);*
>>
>> /**
>> * Converts string value into provided type. String value has to be
>> single JSON value, not a part
>> * of a JSON document representing JSON object.
>> *
>> * @param obj object to convert to string
>> * @param generator JSONP generator to serialize with
>> * @param <T> type of object
>> *
>> * @return converted string value
>> * @throws javax.json.bind.JsonbException if conversion of given type
>> is not supported
>> */
>> <T> String convertDefault(T obj, JsonGenerator generator);
>> }
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dmitry
>>
>>
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