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[–] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I was disgusted by the XML at first, but it's a readable query returning a sane JSON object.

Meanwhile, I'm mantaining Java code where the SQL is a perfectly square wall of text, and some insane mofo decided the way to read the resulting list of Object[] 🤮 is getting each column by index... so I'd switch to SQXMLL in a heartbeat.

[–] cmdrkeen@programming.dev 22 points 8 months ago

React basically figured out how to make XML work.

Remember, XML was actually designed for use cases like this, that’s why it came with XPath and XSLT, which let you make it executable in a sense by performing arbitrary transformations on an XML tree.

Back in the day, at my first coding job, we had an entire program that had a massive data model encoded in XML, and we used a bunch of XSL to programmatically convert that into Java objects, SQL queries, and HTML forms. Actually worked fairly well, except of course that XSL was an awful language to do that all in.

React simply figured out how to use JavaScript as the transformation language instead.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 8 months ago

it's a readable query returning a sane JSON object.

No it's not. What table is the data supposed to be coming from..?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Check out JOOQ.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

JOOQ made me realize that most ORMs suck