I think it's a limitation of the underlying JSON library. Something like:
@XmlRootElement
public class Foo {
@XmlElementWrapper(name="values")
@XmlElement(name="value")
private List<String> values
}
Gives XML like:
<foo>
<values>
<value>foo</value>
<value>bar</value>
</values>
</foo>
And json like:
{foo: {values: {value: ["foo", "bar"]}}}
Whereas really, if this is an API that you want to publicize, you really want:
{values: ["foo", "bar"]}
Seems like the JSON is generated via JAXB and an XMLStreamWriter, which
unfortunately is too limited to provide real control over the JSON.
Thanks,
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Sergey Beryozkin [mailto:sbery...@progress.com]
Sent: 10 February 2009 10:48
To: dev@cxf.apache.org
Subject: Re: JSON in CXF
Hi Gary
> JSON via JAXB definitely leaves something to be desired.
Do you reckon it's the limitations of the underlying JSON library that we use
(Jettison) or do you refer to the insufficient number of hooks for our JSON
JAXRS reader/writer whiich would help in producing a better quality JSON ?
Can you post some examples please - I hope it will help us to improve what we
have
Thanks, Sergey
Hi guys,
I really like how CXF provides both JSON and XML out of the box. However,
after working with the JSON serializer a bit, it's obvious that the JAXB
annotations translate poorly to JSON, and that while you have great control
over XML via JAXB, JSON via JAXB definitely leaves something to be desired.
Do you guys know of any jaxb-quality, annotation-driven JSON serializers?
Cheers,
Gary
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