[jdom-interest] streaming document output

[Rolf Lear]

OK, that means I have had to alter the more complicated 
AbstractFormattedWalker class.

I have a test build I would like you to run. Is this an option? Can I 
email it to you? It passes all my JUnit tests, and uses just an iterator 
for all the output.

Thanks

Rolf

On 11/04/2013 4:28 PM, Patrick Dowler wrote:
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> We normally use Format.getPrettyFormat()
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> 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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