Hi Justin,
not sure if you saw the pull request already, I've mentioned in a mail in
this
thread a few days ago:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/571
Seems good to go to me
Cheers
Andrea
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Justin Deoliveira <
[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 on the idea. Personally I am fine without a proposal for this one, I do
> have a couple of questions though.
>
> Where will the extension point be invoked from? XStreamPersister itself,
> or from XStreamPersisterFactory? I would vote for the latter as I think it
> would be nice to keep that outside of the persister itself.
>
> Should the interface take an instance of the persister rather than the
> underlying xstream? Rationale is that since we expose some other methods on
> XStreamPersister that configure how things are encoded I wonder if we may
> want to make those (along with future methods) available to the plugins as
> well?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> when working over a new module there's often a decision to be made, about
>> where
>> the configuration should be stored and how.
>>
>> While custom configuration files are a popular choice, they also have
>> significant downsides:
>> * the config in question cannot be edited via REST config
>> * persistance has to be managed by the plugin
>> * the config sometimes really is something related to a particular
>> catalog resource, so it
>> would be better placed as part of the resource metadata map
>>
>> Of course one can put whatever is needed in the metadata map, but the
>> default
>> XStream persistence can leave a lot to be desired, with package names
>> included
>> in the element names and the like, to the point of making the metadata
>> map choice
>> less than desirable.
>>
>> What I'm proposing here is a simple customization to the XStreamPersister
>> that
>> allows plugins to register converters and aliases for their objects.
>> This is probably needed by Sampo for the stored query configuration, and
>> I would also
>> like to benefit from it.
>>
>> The interface would be simple:
>>
>> XStreamPersisterInitializer {
>>
>> /**
>> * Allows XStream customizations. Plugins can use this to add aliases
>> and
>> * custom converters for their own configuration objects
>> */
>> void init(XStream xs);
>>
>> }
>>
>> This is pretty small, so not sure if a GSIP is required, but if you feel
>> like it is,
>> let me know.
>>
>> Feedback welcomed
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
>>
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