Re: [json-lib-user] Order of child elements is switched when converting from json to xml

[Olivier C. <oli...@gm...>]

I though the "reply-all" was set to reply to
jso...@li...! :-)

Thanks for your reply anyway. Hope someone can react since I could not play
with bug reports on Sourceforge!

Olivier

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Morgan Packard <mo...@mo...>wrote:

> I'm afraid I'm just a dumb user of this project, I'm not involved in
> authoring or maintaining it in any way, so i'm not the right guy to ask
> about line 942.
> -Morgan
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Olivier Chirouze <
> oli...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I found what I see as a very strange... bug?
>>
>> Line 942 of XMLSerializer.java, in method processJSONObject(), I found...
>>
>> Arrays.sort( names );
>>
>> Why is it there for? I don't see the point in sorting elements,
>> especially if the output is to be an XML. To me this line is 100% useless.
>>
>> I found existing bug entries on sourceforge and will try to push the
>> resolution of these.
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Olivier Chirouze <
>> oli...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with you.
>>> But XML elements ARE ordered, right?
>>> So, when one passes a list of JSON objects in a specific order, why
>>> change that order when converting to XML???
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Morgan Packard <
>>> mo...@mo...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was under the impression that json dictionaries are unordered
>>>> according to the spec.
>>>>
>>>> from json.org:
>>>>
>>>> JSON is built on two structures:
>>>>
>>>>    - A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is
>>>>    realized as an *object*, record, struct, dictionary, hash table,
>>>>    keyed list, or associative array.
>>>>    - An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as
>>>>    an *array*, vector, list, or sequence.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Olivier Chirouze <
>>>> oli...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am playing with JSON lib conversion from JSON to XML and the
>>>>> opposite.
>>>>> I am now facing a strange issue: converting from json string to XML
>>>>> seems to loose the order of elements in the process.
>>>>> However in debug I can make sure the "insertOrder" property of my
>>>>> JSONObject is right! But xmlSerializer.write(myJSONObject) returns an XML
>>>>> string where child elements have been mixed up (seems to be exactly the
>>>>> opposite order!!...)
>>>>>
>>>>> What should I do?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
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