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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-969:
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The need for being able to unpack a description string has now gone away, so
this change is even more important to do. But since a fairly complete revamp
of all connectors needs to be done for 2.0 anyway, I think we should postpone
this ticket until then.
> Output connectors that use a JSON description string likely to fail
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> Key: CONNECTORS-969
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-969
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: File system connector
> Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 1.6.1
> Reporter: Karl Wright
> Assignee: Karl Wright
> Fix For: ManifoldCF 2.0
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> When JSON is used as a description string, the order of terms in JSON is not
> determined - it is hashmap dependent. This means that the strings cannot be
> compared reliably between different versions of Java. Since these strings
> are stored in the database, upgrading java versions for these connectors
> might well cause all records going to them to be reindexed.
> JSON is also quite wordy (although better than XML) and is not a great fit
> for database storage for this reason.
> The alternative is to use the pack primitives that are available from the
> base connector class.
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