Re: deprecate XML package in 3.1

[Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>]

Hi Adrian,

Sorry for a belated reply and thanks for describing your XML serialization scenario. I think it sorta proves my point that current serialization framework only works in very special cases (e.g. in your case we have a single entity per serialization run, no handling of relationships, and no real-time performance requirements). And this particular special case is fairly straightforward to build from scratch.

Cheers,
Andrus



On Dec 4, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Adrian Wiesmann wrote:
> Hi there
> 
>> the issue in the subject is being currently discussed by Cayenne developers (see the message from dev below). Anybody's using XML serialization now? If so I'd like to hear how you deal with all the deficiencies of this package?
> 
> Yes, actually both, serialisation and deserialisation. We thought it is a nice way to have snapshot files. A snapshot file is just a zipped container containing a manifest file and one or multiple files containing data. One table represents a single file, XML formatted.
> 
> Since all our tables have UUID as primary keys snapshot files make it possible to allow road warriors to easily take data on the road and later check it back into the main database...
> 
> It is quite convenient to have some support from Cayenne for this.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>