Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> --On 21 January 2010 09:28 -0600 Tom Barton 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > Chris Hyzer wrote:
> > > > Alternatively, would it make sense to include an attribute of
> > > > uuid-bearing child elements that contain the name of the object being
> > > > referenced? Eg,
> > >
> > > Well, if it were easy, I might say yes.  But I didn't want to mess
> > > with the default Xstream serialization.  Plus, I also didn't want
> > > people to rely on this either i.e. start using it for something,
> > > since the xml export isn't for provisioning, right?  :)
> >
> > Understood. It's just that my sanity-checker fires up when I see us
> > mapping structured data into comments.
> >
> > Gary, who were you anticipating would use those comments, humans or
> > automatons?
> My first concern is being able to understand/troubleshoot the data 
> without having to lookup all those uuids. Comments would not be very 
> friendly for machine parsing but we are only expecting Grouper to parse 
> the file and it doesn't need the data here.
>
> I would suggest that we go with comments for now and wait and see if 
> anyone requests additional attributes / tags.

I have no problem with this.

Tom