[kepler-dev] [Bug 2963] - Add data structure for tabular data and associated metadata

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2963





------- Comment #2 from leinfelder at nceas.ucsb.edu  2009-08-17 14:30 -------
I've introduced an OrderedRecordToken to ptolemy - it preserves the original
order of the RecordToken.
Unfortunately this can be blown away when you serialize it as a string
{a={1,2,3, b={4,5,6}} and then deserialize it back to a RecordToken.
In the mean time, the 'wrp' module overrides the ptolemy RecordToken to use the
correct storage class to preserve the original order. I'm not sure how we can
have both implementations without changing the serialization syntax for the
ordered version. Plausible?

***Or just change RecordToken in Ptolemy to keep it's order and give people a
method to sort them if they want that behavior***