[jdom-interest] streaming document output

[Patrick Dowler]

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?
>>
>>
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