Re: Little people supporting Ada, possibly through AdaCore?

["Thomas Løcke" <thomas@12boo.net>]

On 07/17/2012 03:47 PM, Adrian Hoe wrote:
> Yeah, but looks like GNATColl.JSON has mixed up the order of objects. So, if objects are created in the order of company_name, vat_no, hours, product and web as in procedure Set_Core_Company_Data then it should be left as it is. The objects should be traversed in the same order as they were created but the output shows company_name, web, product, hours and vat_no. I don't mean it is the job of  GNATColl.JSON to sort the objects according to some orders. The question is: Why the objects cannot be traversed in the original order as they are created?


If you look at the code you'll see they are using a plain
Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Hashed_Maps for storage, and some simple
recursion in the Write function. The original order of the objects
are lost forever when they are added to a hashed map. There's no
sequence, only a collection of JSON_Value objects.

There's no way to sort the contents of an Indefinite_Hashed_Maps
container without "wasting" processing time, and since order doesn't
matter in JSON, I don't think the GNATColl devs have spent an awful lot
of time on making sure some sort of arbitrary order is maintained.

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