I didn't know that Jackson supported YAML. Wow, that sounds like a great solution.
-Elijah On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all [chain2] people, > > looks like what we have in /trunk is good already to cut a first RC - > anyway I would like to spur all involved people to be more "visionary" > and do more work now :P > > Just to put more food for thoughts, for the configuration side: I > would like to invite you on evaluating the Jackson[1] library wich is > natively JSON and now supports data binding for more formats[2], XML, > YAML and Smile included! > Hopefully, with Jackson we could get rif of the Digester and have a > universal underlying parser wich supports more formats... how does it > sound? Maybe we won't need multiple config submodules anymore! > > About licensing, Jackson is available under ALv2. > > This is something that worths investigate - WDYT? > > all the best, have a nice day! > -Simo > > [1] http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome > [2] http://www.cowtowncoder.com/blog/archives/2012/04/entry_472.html > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ > http://twitter.com/simonetripodi > http://www.99soft.org/ > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Elijah Zupancic <eli...@apache.org> wrote: >> For this particular project I would rather take the approach of writing a >> [configuration] based configuration and then extending [configuration] to >> support other formats. >> >> -Elijah >> >> On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Simone Tripodi wrote: >> >>> Hi Oliver, >>> >>> we are on the same path!!! I had the idea of realizing an "universal" >>> parser (XML/JSON/YAML/INI) just writing XML readers adapters :) >>> >>> good thought! >>> -Simo >>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >>> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >>> http://www.99soft.org/ >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Oliver Heger >>> <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> wrote: >>> > Slightly off-topic: >>> > >>> > Do you think the following approach could work: Consider there is a >>> central >>> > component - e.g. [flatfile] in sandbox - which implements parsers for >>> > various text-base formats like YAML, JSON, CSV, ... and a generic >>> mechanism >>> > for transforming the parsed data into XML SAX events. Then in theory it >>> > would be possible that all XML-based Commons components like [digester], >>> > [configuration], or [jelly] could directly read such formats. >>> > >>> > WDYT? >>> > Oliver >>> > >>> > Am 26.07.2012 16:10, schrieb Simone Tripodi: >>> > >>> >> Good! >>> >> >>> >> hopefully Bruno can provide some help/advice to Elijah! >>> >> >>> >> Thanks, >>> >> -Simo >>> >> >>> >> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>> >> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >>> >> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >>> >> http://www.99soft.org/ >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita >>> >> <brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> >>> >>> I used SnakeYaml in a project [1] that parses TAP test streams and in >>> >>> some Jenkins plug-ins, and had a look at the source code too. It works >>> very >>> >>> well with the latest YAML spec and the source code is very neat and >>> with >>> >>> many tests. >>> >>> >>> >>> TestNG uses SnakeYaml for parsing YAML configuration of test suites too >>> >>> [2]. >>> >>> >>> >>> [1] http://www.tap4j.org >>> >>> [2] https://github.com/cbeust/testng/blob/master/pom.xml#L124 >>> >>> >>> >>> Bruno P. Kinoshita >>> >>> http://kinoshita.eti.br >>> >>> http://tupilabs.com >>> >>> >>> >>>> ________________________________ >>> >>>> From: Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> >>> >>>> To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> >>> >>>> Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2012 4:58 AM >>> >>>> Subject: Re: [chain2] configuration façade APIs >>> >>>> >>> >>>>> I may draft up a prototype using YAML as a configuration source, just >>> >>>>> to make sure that it in fact is a good abstraction. I noticed that >>> the >>> >>>>> SnakeYaml parser is under the Apache 2.0 license >>> >>>>> (http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/). I'm assuming that it wouldn't >>> >>>>> be a problem to take it as a dependency. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> +1! >>> >>>> >>> >>>> -Simo >>> >>>> >>> >>>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>> >>>> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >>> >>>> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >>> >>>> http://www.99soft.org/ >>> >>>> >>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
