[Hawkular-dev] JSON: jackson and gson. Can we unify the libraries ?

[Thomas Heute]

Minimum dependencies is definitely something that matters. (Security, productization...).
Since jackson is already used and productized, there is definitely a strong advantage to use that one over gson.

Thomas

On 06/24/2015 01:48 PM, Lucas Ponce wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As an implementation detail, we are using two libraries to serialize/deserialize with JSON.
>
> For REST endpoints we are using mainly jackson library as it's packaged with RESTEasy implementation.
>
> For BUS and other scenarios (like alert engine), we are using gson library.
>
> Does it make sense to unify them ?
>
> I have an scenario where I would like to use a class used as data in REST endpoints as payload of a BUS message, and I need to deal with some duplication on json serialization/deserialization tasks.
>
> Perhaps there are good reason to maintain both and that's the best answer but I'm not sure and I wanted to start a discussion around it.
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
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