I have some JSON with names like "qty" and "mkup" to keep things small,
since they are repeated hundreds of times in a JSON object (child
arrays). Obviously I would like to have my EWB code use names like
"Quantity" and "Markup". Is there anything built in to support this?

My ideal would be to have an event that the TPersistent streamer calls
to map from one name to another, so it would pass in "Quantity" and get
back "qty". And probably vice versa for reading.

But it also looks like I could cheat, and use the public properties for
nice names, and the published properties for the streaming names. Is
that going to be stable if I have two properties referring to the same
object? It seems to compile okay.


Anyone else done anything like this?

private
   m_szHumanDescription : String;

public
   property HumanDescriptionTXT : String
        read m_szHumanDescription write m_szHumanDescription;

published
   property Desc : String
        read m_szHumanDescription write m_szHumanDescription;


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Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones wrote:

>  use the public properties for
> nice names, and the published properties for the streaming names

This appears to work okay.

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Matthew Jones

Matthew,

<< But it also looks like I could cheat, and use the public properties for nice names, and the published properties for the streaming names. Is that going to be stable if I have two properties referring to the same object? It seems to compile okay. >>

Yes, that will work fine and doesn't result in any additional code overhead.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com