Re: Simple Pascal question

On 2024-08-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 8/8/2024 8:13 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2024-08-07, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 8/7/2024 5:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Dates/times? You have to contend with an API that has accumulated so much
legacy cruft, that you are left with an old class where every single
member is deprecated, yet the class itself is still needed in the newer-
style calls.

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That is also one of Roland's pet peeves.

 
Now try parsing JSON using the supplied builtin Java libraries
on Android. :-)
 
There is a solution but it is not as clean as elsewhere.

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I would use binding instead of parsing.
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I have never done anything on Android, but I would
expect both JSON-B and Jackson to work on Android
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I like to avoid using third-party libraries when possible.

JSON-B is:
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Jsonb b = JsonbBuilder.create();
X o = b.fromJson(jsonstr, X.class);
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Jackson is:
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ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
X o = om.readValue(jsonstr, X.class);
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It don't get much easier than that.
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For comparison, here are the two built-in options available on Android
that I know about:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/JsonReader
https://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/package-summary

Simon.

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