I have been looking at the restconfig-java code... I had hoped there would be an easy temporary fix for all the missing parts that would just leave the missing parts unchanged, but the way the code is set up I do not see any easy way to do that. This is because it uses "@Xml..." annotations from the javax.xml.bind.annotation package to translate the xml into java objects, uses mutate methods to change things and then translates back to xml. So the code needs to be fixed to have all xml elements properly translated so that it doesn't wipe them out.
I am wondering if this is a reasonable approach- unless the Rest schema is very stable, this code will have to be carefully updated anytime something new is added to the schema, or it will cause these new elements to be wiped. I am guessing this is what happend with the current code- it looks like the author wrote it to correspond to a different xml schema, and then the schema changed. Actually now that I know how it is supposed to work, I am reluctant to fix it, because then it becomes dangerous if the Rest schema changes, unless there are checks that will verify that the complete xml element was translated and shut down before any harm is done. Before I heard of the restconfig-java module, I was working on some PHP that would download the xml into an object, change certain things, leave everything else the same and then upload. I think a similar approach would work in java using the DOM API. Although this is not as slick as using the @Xml annotations, it seems more robust to me. Comments are appreciated, Tara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
