Thanks; I'll take a look!
----- Original Message ----- > From: "andy petrella" <andy.petre...@gmail.com> > To: dev@spark.incubator.apache.org > Sent: Sunday, February 9, 2014 2:09:05 PM > Subject: Re: proposal: replace lift-json with spray-json > > Pickling ? > At least, Heather did some benchmarks as well and the computability plus > its automation thanks to macro are two encouraging features. > Also, it is low level enough to allow some de/serialisation optimization. > > The ooyala blog doesn't include it already, but I know his author knows > about Pickling and I guess t best the time ran over :-) > > Andy > Le 9 févr. 2014 20:50, "Luis Ángel Vicente Sánchez" < > langel.gro...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > spray-json future is not clear as spray is going to become akka-http and > > the spray team is still deciding the future of spray-json... it may stay or > > it may be combined with play-json to create a better library. > > > > spray-json only relies on parboiled, a library mantained by the spray-team > > itself. Right now it's performance is much worse than lift-json ( > > http://engineering.ooyala.com/blog/comparing-scala-json-libraries) but > > that > > would change when they finished parboiled2. > > > > And alternative could be argonaut.io but you would bring scalaz as a > > dependency. > > lift-json is a nice library, but Lift is a pretty heavyweight dependency to > > track just for its JSON support. (lift-json is relatively self-contained > > as a dependency from an end-user's perspective, but downstream distributors > > need to build all of Lift in order to package the JSON support.) I > > understand that this has come up before (cf. SPARK-883) and that the > > uncertain future of JSON support in the Scala standard library is the > > motivator for relying on an external library. > > > > I'm proposing replacing lift-json in Spark with something more lightweight. > > I've evaluated apparent project liveness and dependency scope for most of > > the current Scala JSON libraries and believe the best candidate is > > spray-json (https://github.com/spray/spray-json), the JSON library used by > > the Spray HTTP toolkit. spray-json is Apache-licensed, actively developed, > > and builds and works independently of Spray with only one external > > dependency. > > > > It looks to me like a pretty straightforward change (although > > JsonProtocol.scala would be a little more verbose since it couldn't use the > > Lift JSON DSL), and I'd like to do it. I'm writing now to ask for some > > community feedback before making the change (and submitting a JIRA and PR). > > If no one has any serious objections (to the effort in general or to to > > the choice of spark-json in particular), I'll go ahead and do it, but if > > anyone has concerns, I'd be happy to discuss and address them before > > getting started. > > > > > > thanks, > > wb > > >
