Re: 4.1 templates with relationships

> Am 18.07.2018 um 15:31 schrieb Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]>:
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>> On Jul 18, 2018, at 4:19 PM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 18, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Maik Musall <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> BTW, with your Gson serialization, how do you deal with controlled serialization of essentially infinite graphs? Do you provide a spec of how deep to go down the relationships path?
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>>> I don't have that problem in my experimentation project because I can use an ExclusionStrategy there that solves it. If actual cyclic references need to be expressed, I guess that would be a custom solution with semantics encoded in JSON that the consumer on the other end would need to know about. But I'm not trying to serialize my entire database to someone :)
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>> I was asking as LinkRest provides essentially such framework / semantics. And it is far from trivial on the backend.
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> [Sorry didn't finish my thought... ]
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> Periodically someone would ask "how do I serialize Cayenne objects to JSON". Which to me means "is there a JSON serialization library without the complexity of LinkRest that produces readable JSON and allows to control serialization depth". But maybe I am overthinking it and typical use cases are simple and can be handled with ExclusionStrategy or a similar simple rule set.
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> If you can make GSON work, you should post an example somewhere. This seems like a popular question.

Will do.

In my case there is no REST interface. I'm producing a JSON that gets packaged along with other resources and then transferred over to a signage display (using rsync).

Maik