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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:57:33 +0100
From: Michal Fojtik <mfojtik@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Model layer for CIMI
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lutter@redhat.com wrote:

ACK. We should integrate this into our code base so we can start
improving this and adding more collections.

All tests run smoothly, applied without whitespace errors and the code
looks beautiful :-)

 -- Michal

> This is a model layer for CIMI that does both serialization and 
> deserialization of JSON and XML based on a simple metadata
> description of the CIMI model expressed in a custom DSL. In
> particular, we won't need HAML templates to format objects, and I am
> reasonably sure that the metadata makes sure we serialize in a
> predictable manner to XML.
> 
> Patch 1/2 contains the basics, including the DSL, 2/2 shows how this
> can be used for a specific class.
> 
> There's a few convenience additions that should be made to the DSL,
> in particular making it possible to reuse nested structures that are
> used in several places, something like
> 
> array :operations, :class => Operation
> 
> but we can add that later.
> 
> One small fly in the ointment is that the use of XmlSimple causes
> child elements in XML to be rendered in an unpredictable order; the
> CIMI standard doesn't say anything about reordering elements, though
> with a strict interpretation of XML, the rendered XML does not
> conform to the XML schema implicitly defined in the CIMI standard.
> 
> David

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Michal Fojtik, mfojtik@redhat.com
Deltacloud API: http://deltacloud.org
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