[json-lib-user] First impressions

[Tim P. <tim...@ou...>]

Hi, 

I am just starting with json-lib, and thought you might like to see 
where I bump into the furniture: 

I came to json-lib as a replacement for org.json in the hope of 
getting junit testing facilities, which I have got, thank you. 

I would be interested in more about FAQ 1, as I cannot see any situation in 
which a Bag is the right choice: the population order is of interest and 
should be preserved. To do otherwise is to throw information away. 
The bald statement "JSONObject uses a HashMap for its properties 
representation because the order of its properties is not important."
is a bit strong for me.  Whilst I am sure that it is correct I would like to 
know what would happen if this assumption were not so central. 
I like to round trip in unit tests, the throwing away of information, 
ie the deliberate removal of ordering means that I am unable to do this 
with ease, am not able to use string comparision for equality and 
have had to put in a lot of work. Would it not have been possible to preserve 
the ordering?
Would the performance hot have been so bad?

FAQ What is the relationship to json.org?

It looks like you have stopped using Maven to actually build the artefacts, 
I am new to the list and would like to know why.

When I checkout and type mvn install I get test failure (Kubuntu/sun 
java6/AMD64)

cheers
Tim



[INFO] Surefire report directory: /dist/json-lib/target/surefire-reports
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireExecutionException: Unable to 
instantiate POJO 'class 
net.sf.json.TestJSONObject$PrefixerPropertyNameProcessor'; nested exception is 
java.lang.InstantiationException: 
net.sf.json.TestJSONObject$PrefixerPropertyNameProcessor; nested exception is 
org.apache.maven.surefire.testset.TestSetFailedException: Unable to instantiate 
POJO 'class net.sf.json.TestJSONObject$PrefixerPropertyNameProcessor'; nested 
exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: 
net.sf.json.TestJSONObject$PrefixerPropertyNameProcessor
org.apache.maven.surefire.testset.TestSetFailedException: Unable to instantiate 
POJO 'class net.sf.json.TestJSONObject$PrefixerPropertyNameProcessor'; nested 
exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: 
net.sf.json.TestJSONObject$PrefixerPropertyNameProcessor
java.lang.InstantiationException: 
net.sf.json.TestJSONObject$PrefixerPropertyNameProcessor
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:340)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)