Serialization annotation's body

[olhsha]

There must be some serialization/deserialization mechanism for annotation bodies:

-- "body" in the DB is just a text;

-- "body" in a JAXB-generated class is a list of objects.

Moreover, the server needs to change annotation's body when replacing temporary new-source references in the body with the persistent ones, when these sources are added to the DB.

For now, I use simple "serialize" and "deserialize" Helpers' procedures which should be replaced by some proper marshalling-demarshalling. For simple serialization I treat the first element of the list
of objects above as a text whcich corresponds to the DB column "body_xml".

[olhsha]

So, according to our 18/09 meeting the schema is changed! It looks as follows:

<xs:complexType name="AnnotationBody">

<xs:simpleContent>

<xs:extension base="xs:string">

<xs:attribute name="mimeType" type="xs:string"/>

</xs:extension>

</xs:simpleContent>

</xs:complexType>

The database is changed so that the column "body_xml" in the table "annotation" is replaced with two ones: "body_text" and "body_mimetype". The corresponding adjustments in the code and in the unit tests are done. So far, no special serialization menachisme is used. The question: what does the client need to do to be able to represent the annotation body properly?