On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Thomas Mortagne > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:52 PM, sasinda rukshan > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> I am starting this thread for my XWiki Android Platform Project. > >> > >> Please check whether following are OK. > >> [1] INFO > >> I tried to start my new modules with the de.akquinet.android.archetypes: > >> android-quickstart:1.0.8. (added eclipse plugins m2e, > >> m2e-android[a.k.a *Android > >> Configurator* ]). But this seems buggy in eclipse. > >> Any way the earlier project has not followed the above archtype either. > So > >> I am going to write pom.xml manually for my each module. > >> > >> [2] ADVICE NEEDED > >> xwiki-rest-model module contains 2 submodules > >> |-- xwiki-rest-model-gson ( gson should be corrected to json) > > > > No the g is not a mistake, it's a model to be used with the gson > > library (http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/). See > > > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Google+Android+Client#HXWikiAndroidDevelopmentAPIsandResources > . > > > >> |-- xwiki-rest-model-simplexml > >> I think the xwiki-rest-model-gson is redundant. The classes > >> in xwiki-rest-model-simplexml is added with simple xml annotations, > >> otherwise both modules have same classes. There is no problem with the > >> added annotations for using the same model objects for Json REST web > >> services. And I intend to add my JPA (ORMLite library for persistence) > >> annotations on top of it. > >> Shall I re-factor them to a single module xwiki-rest-model. > > > > No keep them separated, the idea is that both are useful tool to be > > used by someone else that might be moved to xwiki-platform at some > > point along with the current xwiki-rest-model (to be renamed to > > xwiki-rest-model-jaxb). > > > > Chamika initially started with gson and since XWiki REST JSON > > representation had some limitation he moved to XML representation. > > Maybe at some point Android will have native support for jaxb which > > would obviously be the easier for us (embedding jaxb is not an option > > in mobile world where size it still pretty important especially on > > phones). Maybe it's already the case on most recent versions like 4.0 > > I don't know. > > There's also Jackson that could be tried for JSON deserialization, if > said limitations are actually GSON limitations. > GSON wasn't the limitation. It was XWiki RESTful API which doesn't support JSON in some cases. So it's safe to go with xml. > > Having full JAXB support sound a bit overweight for such an "embedded > API", even if one day it is natively supported by Android. What's > important is to have an easy and fast deserialization, IMO. > The only advantage I can see of going JAXB would be in re-using the > exact representations and body readers/writers from XWiki core. But > you probably don't even want to do that since it would mean dragging > XWiki core with you :) > > Jerome > > > > >> > >> [3] INFO > >> I had to change some pom.xml s. As the current project at: > >> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/android-client.git does not build. > Error > >> with parent pom.xml coordinates. > > > > You probably did not setup you maven install properly since what's on > > https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/android-client.git build perfectly as > > you can see on http://ci.xwiki.org/view/All/job/xwiki-android-client/ > > which run a build every time something changes on the git repository.. > > You should look at > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Building. > > > >> > >> > >> Thank you > >> Best Regards. > >> Sasinda Rukshan > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > -- > Jérôme Velociter > Winesquare > http://www.winesquare.net/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
