[Building Sakai] Returning JSON from createEntity

[Steve Swinsburg]

I don't think this should be changed across the board as it would break a lot of integrations, however some way for the developer to decide what to return from the method, ie string or serialised entity, would be ideal. 

Cheers
Steve

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On 14/03/2013, at 0:12, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:

> Mostly that was just to adhere to the microformat. I suppose that I
> could change it in trunk but it would mean an API change which could
> affect all implemented providers.
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Aaron,
>> 
>> What I'd like to do though is just return an object from the createEntity
>> method, rather than a String, and have it encoded automagically. I'd rather
>> not explicitly call methods to produce my JSON and then return it. Is there
>> any particular reason only a String can be returned from createEntity?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Adrian.
>> 
>> 
>> On 13 March 2013 12:22, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There's a JSON encoder in the EB reflect utils. I tried GSON and found
>>> it did not handle things like maps correctly. It worked OK for POJOs
>>> (unless they contained something like a map or an array).
>>> 
>>> -AZ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> Does anybody know how to return JSON from createEntity in an entity
>>>> provider? I know you can craft it; I mean by returning a POJO and having
>>>> it
>>>> serialized by the framework.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Adrian.
>>>> 
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