Thanks for the information, Karl.
I have a couple more questions:
It looks like the format is being applied in cases where ordering might
not really matter, e.g. listing jobs as in the example I gave. (Or
perhaps order does matter here?)
Is there any more doc on the non-sugared format than the examples in the
table at
https://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/release-2.12/en_US/programmatic-operation.html#JSON+equivalents+for+ManifoldCF
Is there something I can do in my requests to get the sugared format for
cases where I don't care about ordering?
Cheers,
James
On 2019-01-17 09:34 Karl Wright said:
The output format did change, and the reason was because the
"syntactic sugar" format would not preserve ordering, so that if you
output and re-input, you'd lose information.
The more complex form is being used only where there is a possibility
of ordering confusion. It was always accepted as input (so that has
not changed).
Thanks,
Karl
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 1:44 AM James Thomas
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Hi,
After installing MCF 2.12 I am seeing a change in the JSON
response format from the REST API.
Here's an example, from the URL mcf-api-service/json/jobs. I've
isolated a job which exists in both my 2.11 and 2.12 instances.
2.11 is on the left:
The 2.12 format feels "internal" and I see that
https://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/release-2.12/api/framework/constant-values.html
shows e.g. "_type_", "_children_" as constants (but that's also
true in 2.12.
I can't see a release note that talks about this change, although
"CONNECTORS-1549: Problem with API output JSON: losing order in
child records." talks about JSON format and the test data for that
change
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12944641/CONNECTORS-1549.patch)
appears to change the JSON format as in my observation.
Is this change expected, and if so is there a way to request the
pre-2.12 format?
Cheers,
James
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