wiibaa / sdmxsource

SdmxSource

A fork of a wonderful SdmxSource library by Metadata Technology.

The fork is based on latest (to date) public version of SdmxSource 1.5.6.6. The motivation behind forking is to resolve several limitations of the original library that are important for its wider adoption as well as wider community contribution to the project.

Key changes

• Released on GitHub. Previously the source code was only available as a -sources artifact within a Maven package. This provides a common playground for community contribution.

• Published to Maven Central. Previously only available from private Maven registry owned by Metadata Technology subject to downtimes.

• Removed aggressive dependency injection and transitive dependencies to Spring framework. Design of the original library was heavily using dependency injection mechanism. This design decision complicated using the library as a set of utility classes making integration with the library complex and invasive from the perspective of transitive dependencies to Spring packages. Library code was refactored to enable manual creation and initialization of objects. While the objects are no longer 'beans', their original naming which used Beans suffix was preserved.

Other improvements

• SDMX-JSON serialization / deserialization for structural artefacts. Ported from .NET version of SdmxSource by Eurostat.
• SDMX-CSV serialization / deserialization for data sets.
• Unit test coverage. Ported from .NET version of SdmxSource by Eurostat.
• Bug fixes.