Gaetan de Menten wrote: > Replying to myself... I just realized the irony of things: Soaplib > is done by a colleague of Jonathan Lacour (one of the other original > authors of Elixir) at Optio software, so he might already have an > off-the-shelf solution to this problem. Btw: I don't have the rights > to post on the soaplib list, so I'd be grateful if you could forward > this mail.
Indeed, soaplib is written by Aaron Bickell, who is a really smart guy and a colleague of mine. I talked briefly with him about the issue, and he thinks it would be relatively straightforward to write a serializer for soaplib that could generically serialize any Elixir entity. While I agree with Paul that there is some crossover in ORM and defining serializers, I don't think that creating a uniform way to describe the attributes of a class is enough. In the end, serialization and ORM are fundamentally different problems with some similarities, and I think a 50 line python module for serializing Elixir objects into SOAP using soaplib is probably the best solution. I'll see if I can't get Aaron to post a message giving you some guidance on how you might go about doing this. Best of luck, and thanks for your feedback! -- Jonathan LaCour http://cleverdevil.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SQLElixir" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlelixir?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
