Sohani Weerasinghe Software Engineer WSO2, Inc: http://wso2.com
Mobile : +94 716439774 Blog :http://christinetechtips.blogspot.com/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/sohanichristine On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Gayan Yalpathwala <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Current implementation of visual DataMapper always expects schemas with a > root record (Type). This basically should be a named record so that it > could be visually represented in the tree structure. A sample is given > below. > > { > "name":"sfRecords", > "type":"record", > "fields":[ > { > "name":"sfRecord", > "type":{ > "type":"array", > "items":{ > "name":"sfRecord", > "type":"record", > "fields":[ > { > "name":"Opportunity_Name", > "type":"string" > }, > { > "name":"Account_Name", > "type":"string" > }, > { > "name":"Amount", > "type":"string" > } > ] > } > } > } > ] > } > > > A problem occurs when a JSON data-set is converted to avro schema using > the given option. JSON can exist without a named root node therefore such > input cannot be represented visually. > > Eg:- > > { > "expand":"schema,names", > "startAt":0, > "maxResults":50, > "total":6, > "issues":[ > { > "id":"10230", > "self":"http://kelpie9:8081/rest/api/2/issue/BULK-62";, > "key":"BULK-62" > }, > { > "id":"10004", > "self":"http://kelpie9:8081/rest/api/2/issue/BULK-47";, > "key":"BULK-47" > } > ] > } > > What will be the approach for handling inputs like this? IMO, we can > introduce a default root node to both input and output tree structures, so > that any forthcoming elements can be listed below that regardless of their > type (either Type, List or Attribute). > +1 for introducing a default root node and remove it at runtime. > > Thanks, > > > -- > *Gayan Kaushalya Yalpathwala* > Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com > lean.enterprise.middleware > > mobile: +94 71 8682704 <http://asia14.wso2con.com/> > > <http://asia14.wso2con.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > >
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