Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Introducing a new velocity tool for JSON manipulation [SUMMARY]

4 +1 no 0 no -1 commiting in both branch 2.0 and trunk Thanks, Jerome. On 10/10/09 6:57 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to commit a new velocity tool to help producing JSON from > velocity. It's mainly a wrapper around the json-lib library > (http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/). > > For a first version, I propose the 2 following APIs : > > public JSON toJSON(Object object) > public String toValueString(String value) > > The first one should become a privileged way of producing JSON from > velocity. It allows to easily write a JSON-valid String from java > beans > and/or maps. See http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/usage.html#objects > for > more information of what it makes possible. Note that JSON#toString > actually writes down the valid JSON, so in velocity we just have to > do : > $jsontool.toJSON($object) > > The second API is a helper to produce a JSON-valid value String > from a > java String (it escapes properly quotes). > > I've pasted the proposed implementation at > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/VelocityJsonToolProposal > > As a bonus, this will make the JSON groovy builder > (http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/apidocs/jdk15/net/sf/json/groovy/JsonGroovy… > ) > and the JSONSlurper > (http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/apidocs/jdk15/net/sf/json/groovy/JsonSlurpe… > ) > available for groovy scripting. > > If you agree I would like to commit it in branch 2.0 as well, as > this is > the clean way of fixing some issues with the livetable. (For > example : > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4282). > > My +1 for the tool, > > Thanks, > Jerome.