Hi!
I have a question regarding the behaviour of JsonReader. I don't like to know
how our impl behaves right now
but what is expected by the specification.
Currently our JsonReader always consumes the whole input. And it even blows up
if there is anything else on the stream. See JsonReaderImpl#readValue
("Expected end of file",...)
What I did expect is the following:
The JsonReader basically consumes the JsonParser and makes JsonObject etc from
it.
Now for what I was looking for:
I was about using JsonParser and parse the stream manually. But sometimes I
need a full Object. Means my JsonParser might be positioned on the start of an
object ('{'). If I create a new JsonReaderImpl(jsonParser) and call
readObject() then it blows up. It doesn't go down the object tree, creates
JsonObjects and stops after it finishes THIS LEVEL. But instead it tries to
continue until there is no more element.
The question now is: am I expecting the wrong behaviour?
The reason why I'm asking is that the Mapper currently is a bit asymmetric. It
uses the streaming API (JsonGenerator) for writing objects but the tree API
(JsonReader) for reading objects back.
Most of the time this doesn't matter for the end user, as all this is hidden
behind the Mapper. But for ObjectConverter it makes a difference. Of course it
will work, but it is not very obvious.
Any ideas?
LieGrue,
strub
