[Resteasy-developers] Testing JAXB-based Providers

[Ryan J. M. <ry...@da...>]

One thing I'd like to do in order to provide better test coverage to  
the JAXB-based providers is to have some tests that can perform the  
following:

Validate JAXB classes against an XML Schema
Work with XJC generated from an XML Schema
Validate against some pre-existing XML, Fastinfoset, and JSON instances

The challenging thing is with the XJC generated classes because it the  
class generation always runs, no matter if you just want it to execute  
just for  unit tests. This means that the test data would be packaged  
with the distribution, which is something we'd like to avoid.

With that said, I' like to separate out the XJC portion into a  
subproject called something like "resteasy-test-data" that would  
simply contain JAXB generated classes and other test data. I wanted to  
float the idea first to see what people's opinions are on the subject.  
So far, it's working just dandy and I have classes generated from an  
XSD working.

On a related note: I'm finishing up the JSON providers so that they  
are inline with the updates I made to the rest of the JAXB providers.  
I found some areas to refactor a bit more in order to make it more  
maintainable. With that said, please let me know if you're making any  
changes the JAXB, Fastinfoset, or JSON providers. Thanks!

Ryan-