Re: Removing commons.json guidance

[Nicolas Peltier <np...@adobe.com.INVALID>]

Hi Karl, 

Thanks for this! (Thought I needed to do the work :-) )

Nicolas
> On 29 May 2017, at 15:34, Karl Pauls <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> I'm not sure I 100% understand what you are asking but in a nutshell,
> the org.json license has been moved to CAT-X (i.e., not compatible
> with AL). Subsequently, we can not release anything that contains
> org.json or derived code. In our case, this mostly means we can't use
> o.a.s.commons.json anymore.
> 
> We did look into alternatives and settled with using the
> o.a.felix.util.json.JSONWriter embedded where a bundle is only writing
> out simple json and javax.json otherwise. Towards that end, we created
> a new o.a.s.commons.johnzon bundle that provides javax.json.
> 
> I did a first push recently and reworked all bundles that are
> currently in the launchpad. Consequently, the launchpad currently
> doesn't require org.json nor o.a.s.commons.json anymore. However, we
> have still quite some other bundles and places like integration tests
> etc. that need to be reworked.
> 
> For that, I just created SLING-6887 as the umbrella issue. Unless I
> missed something, if all subtask on that issue are done (i.e., for
> each subtask we reworked the associated bundle to not include or
> depend on org.json, o.a.s.commons.json, nor
> o.a.jackrabbit.commons.json and use javax.json or the Felix JSONWriter
> instead, respectively) we hopefully have a completely org.json and
> derived code free trunk.
> 
> Since I "volunteered" in the first place, I'm still commited to work
> on this removal and I will try to pick up the sub-task of SLING-6887
> one by one but certainly contributions are welcome :-).
> 
> Overall, the policy is: no more org.json/commons.json. The guideline
> is, try to use javax.json if its complicated, otherwise, see if the
> Felix JSONWriter is enough and if so, us that one but embed it
> directly into the bundle.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Karl
> 
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Nicolas Peltier
> <np...@adobe.com.invalid> wrote:
>> Hey Karl,
>> 
>> I see you created a few JIRAs on removing commons.json I followed the effort about from rather far away.
>> Would it be possible to indicate some wiki or doc on what are the guidelines following that change?
>> 
>> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Karl Pauls
> karlpauls@gmail.com