+1 for a pluggable serializer. I dont like the internal json plugin
serializer that much.... and yes, the plugin should be included in the
distro because json is that popular these days....
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Am 14.07.2008 um 15:42 schrieb Musachy Barroso:
The original idea behind the JSON plugin was to use an external
library to serialize the objects, xstream to be more specific. But
xstream json wasn't even usable at that point and json-lib didn't look
that good to me. I think Struts 2 should include a json plugin, and
yes we could delegate the serialization to json-lib, or xstream.
musachy
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Jeromy Evans
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Oleg Mikheev wrote:
Hi!
Will REST plugin replace JSON plugin in Struts 2.1?
To my mind JSON plugin was very REST-like, and I was
really hoping that it would evolve into something that
REST plugin claims to be.
Also, do REST and JSON plugins have anything in common?
They're not related except both can serialize an action/model into
JSON.
In the past I created a ContentTypeHandler for the REST Plugin that
used the
JSON plugin's serializer. The result was exactly the same.
The REST plugin uses json-lib for its default JSON
ContentTypeHandler.
(http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/)
The advantage of JSON-lib is that it's bidirectional (essential for
the
plugin) and is used in many frameworks.
The advantage of the JSON-plugin is that it includes some simple
options to
customize the output specifically for S2 (such as changing the root
object).
I've contributed to both the JSON plugin and REST plugin and use
the JSON
plugin when I'm writing plain actions that return JSON responses and
json-lib when using the REST plugin. The options the JSON-plugin
provides
are generally not relevant when using the REST plugin so it's not
valuable
to run both.
The JSON plugin should probably be updated to allow the serializer
to be
customized so you can use the json-lib serializer or the native
serializer.
After I read REST plugin author's Struts 2 in Action
book it seemed that he wasn't aware of JSON plugin at
all - he devoted several pages to implementation of a
custom JSON handlers instead of just dropping JSON
plugin into Struts 2 stack......
I presume that's just because the JSON plugin isn't part of the
Struts 2
distribution per se.
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