XStream testing - blojsom - Confluence

What is XStream?

XStream is "a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again."

Why incorporate XStream into blojsom?

I wanted to see how another file format still utilizing the file system as the content database could be integrated into blojsom.

What do I need to compile and use this?

Download XStream. This code was compiled against XStream 1.0.1.
Place the attached source files in the appropriate directories in your blojsom source tree.
Compile blojsom's JAR files.
In /WEB-INF/blojsom.properties, use the following for the fetcher configuration property.

blojsom-fetcher=org.blojsom.fetcher.xstream.XStreamFetcher
In /WEB-INF/plugin.properties, use the following for the comment and trackback plugin.

comment=org.blojsom.plugin.comment.xstream.CommentPlugin
trackback=org.blojsom.plugin.trackback.xstream.TrackbackPlugin

What does a blog entry look like?

<org.blojsom.blog.xstream.XStreamBlogEntry>
  <_blogCategory class="org.blojsom.blog.FileBackedBlogCategory">
    <_category>/</_category>
    <_categoryURL>http://localhost:8080/blojsom/blog/default/</_categoryURL>
  </_blogCategory>
  <_blogFileEncoding>UTF8</_blogFileEncoding>
  <_category>/</_category>
  <_commentsDirectory>.comments</_commentsDirectory>
  <_description>Bar!
</_description>
  <_entryDate>2004-07-01 14:04:47.300 PM</_entryDate>
  <_lastModified>1088705087300</_lastModified>
  <_link>http://localhost:8080/blojsom/blog/default/?permalink=8F40BA3D062F502835670B79847EEB0E.html</_link>
  <_metaData>
    <entry>
      <string>blog-entry-metadata-timestamp</string>
      <string>1088705087300</string>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <string>blog-entry-author</string>
      <string>david</string>
    </entry>
  </_metaData>
  <_source>
    <path>/testing/blog-xstream/8F40BA3D062F502835670B79847EEB0E.html</path>
  </_source>
  <_title>Foo</_title>
  <_trackbacks>
    <org.blojsom.blog.Trackback>
      <_blogName></_blogName>
      <_excerpt></_excerpt>
      <_metaData>
        <entry>
          <string>BLOJSOM_TRACKBACK_PLUGIN_METADATA_IP</string>
          <string>127.0.0.1</string>
        </entry>
      </_metaData>
      <_title>http://www.blojsom.com/blog/</_title>
      <_trackbackDateLong>1088706680161</_trackbackDateLong>
      <_url>http://www.blojsom.com/blog/</_url>
    </org.blojsom.blog.Trackback>
  </_trackbacks>
  <_trackbacksDirectory>.trackbacks</_trackbacksDirectory>
</org.blojsom.blog.xstream.XStreamBlogEntry>

What else might not work?

The administration plugin which handles editing of blog entries and allows for comments/trackbacks to be deleted would need to be changed ever-so-slightly to save the entry instead of deleting the individual comment/trackback.

The Blogger and MetaWeblog API XML-RPC handlers would also change slightly.