[jira] [Created] (CONNECTORS-969) Output connectors that use a JSON description string likely to fail

["Karl Wright (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Karl Wright created CONNECTORS-969:
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             Summary: Output connectors that use a JSON description string likely to fail
                 Key: CONNECTORS-969
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-969
             Project: ManifoldCF
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: File system connector
    Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 1.6.1
            Reporter: Karl Wright
            Assignee: Karl Wright
             Fix For: ManifoldCF 1.7


When JSON is used as a description string, the order of terms in JSON is not determined - it is hashmap dependent.  This means that the strings cannot be compared reliably between different versions of Java.  Since these strings are stored in the database, upgrading java versions for these connectors might well cause all records going to them to be reindexed.

JSON is also quite wordy (although better than XML) and is not a great fit for database storage for this reason.

The alternative is to use the pack primitives that are available from the base connector class.



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