Move WTKXSerializer to org.apache.pivot.beans and rename to BeanSerializer
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Key: PIVOT-470
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-470
Project: Pivot
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: core-beans
Reporter: Greg Brown
Fix For: 1.5
WTKXSerializer does not currently have any dependencies on org.apache.pivot.wtk
and can technically be used to deserialize any arbitrary bean hierarchy. Moving
it to pivot-core will allow developers to take advantage of it on the server
where it can be used to facilitate design patterns such as dependency injection
and aspect-oriented programming.
There is a question of what prefix to use for the internal processing namespace
(currently "wtkx"). Should this continue to be "wtkx" for WTKX files, or should
it be something more generic ("bxml", "bx", "jbx", etc.)? This prefix could
also be used as a generic file extension for bean markup files when a more
appropriate extension is not available.
There is also the question of what to call the @WTKX annotation. This should
probably also parallel the namespace prefix.
It may be valid for WTKX files to retain the .wtkx extension, since it clearly
articulates what type of bean XML the file contains. This notion is further
reinforced by the fact that the default namespace for WTKX files refers to the
WTK package, org.apache.pivot.wtk. However, using a dedicated extension for WTK
markup may simply promote confusion.
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