> On Mar 4, 2020, at 1:23 AM, Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have managed to produce JSON in JsonTemplateLayout without using
> Jackson. I have successfully implemented all existing features with
> the exception of pretty printing, which I will leave out. There is a
> 2nd use case for Jackson in JsonTemplateLayout: reading the JSON
> schema. That is, JsonTemplateLayout uses Jackson both to parse the
> template and to render JSON. The former still needs to be addressed,
> i.e., I need a JSON parser. In order to qualify for "core", that needs
> to be accomplished without any dependencies. I thought of using ANTLR
> for parsing JSON, but that auto-generates Java sources depending on
> antlr4-runtime. May I shade+relocate antlr4-runtime? Do you have any
> suggestions on how to implement a dependency-free JSON parser?
Not really. I am not sure avoiding the use of a JSON parser library just to
include the JsonTemplateLayout in core is worth the effort. People who want to
use JSON aren’t going to mind bringing in a JSON library. And if it means
adding a JSON parser to core that we have to maintain, unless it is just a
couple of classes I don’t know that I would want to do that.
Ralph
