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Hi there.. new to xataface and I am so far... impressed. I would like to adjust one thing though. I use a fair bit of JSON encoded fields to store meta data and it would be very helpful if I could get xataface to read and write JSON data behind the group widget instead of xml. Is there a pluggable system for parsers? is there anyway I could customize this without tearing the entire app apart?

Yes you can implement your own serializer for that field by implementing the fieldname__serialize() method in the delegate class. I'm going to need to look through my notes to find an example of this method for you. ... will post soon

That would be wicked when ever you get a chance.. the docs are pretty poor for that kind of stuff.

You can implement fieldname__parse() and fieldname__serialize() methods to override the serialization and loading of fields in your database. E.g.

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function myfield__parse($data){
    if ( is_string($data) ){
        return json_decode($data, false);
    }
    return $data;
}

function myfield__serialize($data){
    return json_encode($data);
}


Haven't tested this particular code, but should work.

You may want to check out
http://weblite.ca/svn/dataface/core/tru ... Record.php (the setValue() method is it asks the table to parse input).
http://weblite.ca/svn/dataface/core/tru ... /Table.php (the parse() method...)
http://weblite.ca/svn/dataface/core/tru ... alizer.php (actually does the serialization).

Implementing xxx__parse() and xxx__serialize() overrides the default mechanisms.