[jboss-as7-dev] RFC: Model normalization

The following are three responses to query server-config resources: Take a look at the "jvm" property and imagine the number of if-statements you need to come with to deal with the three different representations. [INFO] { [INFO] "path" : null, [INFO] "system-property" : null, [INFO] "interface" : null, [INFO] "jvm" : {"default" : null}, [INFO] "name" : "server-one", [INFO] "group" : "main-server-group", [INFO] "auto-start" : true [INFO] } [INFO] { [INFO] "path" : null, [INFO] "system-property" : null, [INFO] "interface" : null, [INFO] "jvm" : {"default" : {"heap" : { [INFO] "size" : "64m", [INFO] "max-size" : "256m" [INFO] }}}, [INFO] "name" : "server-two", [INFO] "group" : "main-server-group", [INFO] "socket-binding-group" : "standard-sockets", [INFO] "socket-binding-port-offset" : -106, [INFO] "auto-start" : true [INFO] } [INFO] { [INFO] "path" : null, [INFO] "system-property" : null, [INFO] "interface" : null, [INFO] "jvm" : null, [INFO] "name" : "server-three", [INFO] "group" : "other-server-group", [INFO] "socket-binding-group" : "standard-sockets", [INFO] "socket-binding-port-offset" : -6, [INFO] "auto-start" : false [INFO] } IMO we need to think thoroughly about the following questions: - Can the model be normalized somehow? - How do we deal with inherited properties? - Would it make sense to separate the actual state from the structural information? Ike