Proposals for version 3

[PatrickGotthard]

Here are some proposals for version 3:

• remove Cloneable
• remove Serializable
• replace reflection (e.g. in equals and hashCode) with explicit code
• replace rome.properties through ServiceLoader
• replace JDOM with Java DOM or StAX
• integrate all modules into "rome" (effectively only rome-modules and rome-opml will be integrated)
• remove URL support from XmlReader
• support for JSR 310 (new Date Time API)

[antoniosanct]

Hi, @PatrickGotthard

Nice to try the first three! Maybe the old JDK DOM migration (or maybe StAX parser!) could be a nice chance to include it. Branch reorganization seems a big problem at this moment for JDK DOM migration in my forked repo (>600 files changed). Step by step.

Regards,
Antonio.

[artembilan]

I would suggest to stay away from Lombok: you develop here a library, not the target application, so better to be as specific with your code as possible.
And less reflection, please! 😄

[neroux]

As I mentioned previously, please make sure you are not breaking Android compatibiity with these changes, otherwise the library would become unusable.

The DOM change was mentioned at some point and the date API may be also an issue, even though I believe this was addressed.

[antoniosanct]

@neroux how could I check if Android or ASOP have Java DOM compatibility?
@PatrickGotthard JSR 310, How could I start? (hehe!)

Regards,
Antonio.

[antoniosanct]

@PatrickGotthard Yesterday I started migrating all Date/Calendar/DateFormat/SimpleDateFormat references by ZonedDateTime/DateTimeFormatter, and I had some problems using Google Base module. I hope I make a new PR ASAP of this feature.

Regards,
Antonio.

[PatrickGotthard]

Hi @antoniosanct,

I'm glad about your commitment, but please wait a little bit. All above are just ideas without digging deeper into the code. Before breaking backwards-compatibility we should discuss it 🙂

Regarding the Android question: just try it out using the official IDE and SDK 😏

Regards,
Patrick

[antoniosanct]

Hi, everyone:

@neroux I found this link about it: https://developer.android.com/reference/org/w3c/dom/package-summary. I think that AOSP has DOM compatibility, but in all Android versions?
@PatrickGotthard I've finished the feature, but I agree with you about discuss this own feature. I have a master_jsr310 branch in my own forked repo to evaluate it.

Regards,
Antonio.

[neroux]

I guess the best way will be to verify as mentioned at #637 (comment). Maybe you can check the date libraries as well, as there may be also compatibility issues.