BTW, I am using xml-simple 1.1.1, json 1.6.1. Thanks.
Tong Li Emerging Technologies & Standards Building 501/B205 liton...@us.ibm.com From: lut...@redhat.com To: deltacloud-dev@incubator.apache.org Date: 11/09/2011 04:19 PM Subject: Model layer for CIMI This is a model layer for CIMI that does both serialization and deserialization of JSON and XML based on a simple metadata description of the CIMI model expressed in a custom DSL. In particular, we won't need HAML templates to format objects, and I am reasonably sure that the metadata makes sure we serialize in a predictable manner to XML. Patch 1/2 contains the basics, including the DSL, 2/2 shows how this can be used for a specific class. There's a few convenience additions that should be made to the DSL, in particular making it possible to reuse nested structures that are used in several places, something like array :operations, :class => Operation but we can add that later. One small fly in the ointment is that the use of XmlSimple causes child elements in XML to be rendered in an unpredictable order; the CIMI standard doesn't say anything about reordering elements, though with a strict interpretation of XML, the rendered XML does not conform to the XML schema implicitly defined in the CIMI standard. David
