Re: streaming document output
Patrick Dowler <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:28:48 -0700
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We normally use Format.getPrettyFormat() Patrick On 04/11/2013 11:30 AM, Rolf Lear wrote: > Oh, are you using 'raw' output, or are you making it 'pretty' or other > format? > > Rolf > > On 11/04/2013 1:29 PM, Patrick Dowler wrote: >> >> We have a few web services that send XML documents in the response. >> The documents can be large and when they are there is always one spot >> where there is an arbitrarily long list of child elements. >> >> With jdom1 we had implemented a subclass of Element for the element >> with the long list of child elements and then had the iterator over >> that list dynamically generate the children. Since the XMLOutputter >> used indexed access rather than the iterator, we also had to subclass >> it and override the list access. That works fine at the time. >> >> No we are porting to jdom2 and I see that the outputter still uses >> indexed access; that is a shame given all the comments in the code >> about how the iterator is generally better than having to call size() >> on the lists. It would be really nice and enable people to implement >> customisations if jdom2 used the iterators rather than the indexing >> throughout the codebase. Is that a lot of work? >> >> The further problem we have right now is that XMLOutputter is final so >> we can't trivially port our jdom1 code. Is implementing a custom >> XMLOutputProcessor the right place to do that? The change we'd be >> making is to change it to use iterators... is that something that >> should go into the core library? >> >> For XMLOutputProcessor, I am looking specifically at these methods: >> >> process(Writer,Format,Element) >> process(Writer,Format,List) >> >> Is that the place to change to iterators? >> >> > > . > -- Patrick Dowler Canadian Astronomy Data Centre National Research Council Canada 5071 West Saanich Road Victoria, BC V9A 2L9 250-363-0044 (office) 250-363-0045 (fax) _______________________________________________ To control your jdom-interest membership: http://www.jdom.org/mailman/options/jdom-interest/[email protected]