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

[Alan H. <al....@gm...>]

I must look at committing a patch with an optional value to turn on/off
sorting. At the time we had some deadlines that meant I could not do this
and then got caught up with other items.


On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Olivier Chirouze <
oli...@gm...> wrote:
> Funny :-) Thanks for sharing the feedback.
> That proves how useful this line is! I don't really like that solution
though...
> In the meantime, I implemented a solution with more lines of code but
that seems to get all I need:
> - a xml2json.xsl stylesheet for XML => JSON (advantage: can use
"BadgerFish" convention)
> - jettison for JSON => XML (but quite complicated to implement)
> So, in a word I did without JSON-lib but what a shame!
> Olivier
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Alan Hicks <al....@gm...> wrote:
>
> We are using this library to convert from JSON to XML and XML to JSON. To
get around the sorting issue we just commented out the call to
"Arrays.sort( names );" in the Serializer. We have been using it like this
since April 2010 with no issues.
>
> On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Olivier Chirouze <
oli...@gm...> wrote:
>> 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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