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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> ---------------------
