Oleg Mikheev wrote:
Hi!
Will REST plugin replace JSON plugin in Struts 2.1?
To my mind JSON plugin was very REST-like, and I was
really hoping that it would evolve into something that
REST plugin claims to be.
Also, do REST and JSON plugins have anything in common?
They're not related except both can serialize an action/model into JSON.
In the past I created a ContentTypeHandler for the REST Plugin that used
the JSON plugin's serializer. The result was exactly the same.
The REST plugin uses json-lib for its default JSON ContentTypeHandler.
(http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/)
The advantage of JSON-lib is that it's bidirectional (essential for the
plugin) and is used in many frameworks.
The advantage of the JSON-plugin is that it includes some simple options
to customize the output specifically for S2 (such as changing the root
object).
I've contributed to both the JSON plugin and REST plugin and use the
JSON plugin when I'm writing plain actions that return JSON responses
and json-lib when using the REST plugin. The options the JSON-plugin
provides are generally not relevant when using the REST plugin so it's
not valuable to run both.
The JSON plugin should probably be updated to allow the serializer to be
customized so you can use the json-lib serializer or the native serializer.
After I read REST plugin author's Struts 2 in Action
book it seemed that he wasn't aware of JSON plugin at
all - he devoted several pages to implementation of a
custom JSON handlers instead of just dropping JSON
plugin into Struts 2 stack......
I presume that's just because the JSON plugin isn't part of the Struts 2
distribution per se.
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