Scala collections support

[daveclay]

Hi,

I just pulled together the code from this ticket:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JACKSON-211

and moved it into the new Scala module project. I've only tested the serializers today thus far; I've also made it work in RESTEasy with a custom Provider to register the ObjectMapper with the new ScalaModule (not sure where to put that little class yet. It depends on jaxrs, and gets pulled in automagically via RESTEasy/Jaxrs).

I'm using ScalaTest for my test cases. I'm new to maven, so I'm not sure the process to get general access to the ScalaTest libraries via a repository. I just installed them locally from http://scalatest.org/.

I'll see what I can do with more testing today and tomorrow.

• Dave

[cowtowncoder]

Ok, one issue is that scalatest is not available from central maven repo. I guess it should be possible to add secondary maven repository using scm tag, will try to figure it out (but why don't they publish it to central?)

[cowtowncoder]

Some issues:

• Looks like package 'com.fasterxml.jackson.module.scala.ser' is missing (and specifically class ScalaSerializers)
• Serializers and Deserializers implementations should not extend matching factories; I can help rewrite this part (extending would cause issues with delegation)

[cowtowncoder]

Ah. Actually, serializers are written in scala, so they'd have to be first compiled...

[daveclay]

I'm not all that familiar with maven, but I believe I have it compiling scala first, then java. Seems to compile for me...

I updated the pom to reference the scalatest.org maven repo, according to the info at:
http://www.scalatest.org/download

I'll take a lok at the serializers/deserializers graph. I did very little to the existing code to get it into the module api. Hopefully it shouldn't be much work to remove the old implementations.

[cowtowncoder]

Ok: merged this into master; more work is needed to make things work but this is a good start.