[Building Sakai] Returning JSON from createEntity

[Steve Swinsburg]

Out of pure interest, whats your code from when you have the entity and
want to return a serialised form?

cheers,
Steve


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>wrote:

> For the moment I'm doing the serialisation myself, but it could be
> considered in the future. I could do the post as a custom action I suppose.
>
> It just seems a bit restrictive not to be able to just return the posted
> entity. A pattern that repeats itself again and again is one where you
> replace some markup with the canonical copy from the server without
> refreshing the entire page, and being able to return the actual updated
> data from the post fits the bill nicely.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
>
> On 13 March 2013 22:15, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> Gesendent von meinem iPhone
>>
>> 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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