Complete mapping between the XML infoset and dynamic language data expressions

• US 7,761,484 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2007
• Issued: 07/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Rangachari, Krishnan, Jethanandani, Natasha, Osovetsky, Eugene, Christensen, Erik B., Maine, Stephen J., Srinivasan, Sowmyanarayanan K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mofiz; Apu M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le; Hung D
• Application Number:
  US11/673,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20080195634A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/807
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/84 Mapping; Conversion

Abstract

Converting data to an appropriate format for use with a service. An example method is illustrated where a message including data expressed using dynamic language data expressions is received. The dynamic language data expressions include a tree structure organization for the data. The data expressed using dynamic language data expressions is expressed in an XML data structure. The XML data structure preserves the original tree structure organization for the data.

Claims

1. In a computer having a processor and memory and further including an extensible markup language (XML) serialization stack, a method performed by the computer to convert data expressed using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) into an XML data structure for use with a service, the method comprising:

receiving, at a translation module of the computer, a message including data expressed using JSON, the data expressed using JSON including type information; and

the translation module expressing the data expressed using JSON in an XML data structure, wherein the XML data structure preserves the original organization for the data by preserving the type information from the data expressed using JSON by naming one or more elements of the XML data structure with the name of the type of data that is enclosed by the corresponding element, wherein the type information includes at least one of an object, a number, a string, or an array.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the XML data structure comprises a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing the XML data structure using a common serializer, wherein the common serializer is an un-modified serializer used for processing messages received in XML data structures.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing the XML data structure using a common serializer, wherein the common serializer is a serializer used for processing both messages received in XML data structures and data from received JSON messages once the data is expressed in an XML data structure.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

expressing data expressed in an XML data structure in JSON; and

sending the data from the XML data structure expressed in JSON to a system that processes JSON.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising asking a yes/no question to determine an element name not included in the data expressed using JSON, but included in the XML data structure.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein expressing the data expressed using JSON in an XML data structure comprises excluding JSON information that is not compatible with a serializer used for the XML data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein expressing the data expressed using JSON in an XML data structure, is performed in a dynamic streaming fashion.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving out of band data communicating information used in JSON, but not compatible with the XML data structure.

10. In a computer having a processor and memory and further including an extensible markup language (XML) serialization stack, a method performed by the computer to convert data expressed using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) into an XML data structure for use with a service, the method comprising:

receiving a message including data expressed using JSON, wherein the JSON message includes a tree structure organization for the data; and

expressing the data expressed using JSON in an XML data structure, wherein the XML data structure preserves the original tree structure organization for the data by preserving type information from the data expressed using JSON by naming one or more elements of the XML data structure with the name of the type of data that is enclosed by the corresponding element, wherein the type information includes at least one of an object, a number, a string, or an array.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the XML data structure comprises a SOAP message.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising processing the XML data structure using a common serializer, wherein the common serializer is a serializer used for processing both messages received in XML data structures and data from received JSON messages once the data is expressed in an XML data structure.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein expressing the data expressed using JSON in an XML data structure comprises excluding JSON information that is not compatible with a serializer used for the XML data.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein expressing the data expressed using JSON in an XML data structure is performed in a dynamic streaming fashion.

15. A computer storage medium comprising computer executable instructions for performing the following acts:

receiving a message including data expressed using JSON, wherein the JSON message includes a tree structure organization for the data; and

expressing the data expressed using JSON in an XML data structure, wherein the XML data structure preserves the original tree structure organization for the data by preserving type information from the data expressed using JSON by creating an element in the XML data structure for each of the items of data expressed using JSON that includes type information, and defining the type information of the corresponding item of data within an attribute of the corresponding element, wherein the type information includes at least one of an object, a number, a string, or an array.