Re: [Acme] Message Type/Version Identifiers

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Thu, 18 December 2014 20:11 UTC

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On 2014-12-18 20:53, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 18 December 2014 at 03:08, Anders Rundgren
> <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have "backported" these things to JSON because I think they were good.  A
>> system like
>> ACME could also use such a scheme since there will undoubtedly be revisions
>> over time.
>
> I can appreciate the attraction, but this is a big "no" for me.
> Absence of these features is one of the reasons that JSON has proven
> successful over XML.
>
> If you need versioning at that level, I'd recommend defining a content
> type instead.

The ACME folks have their freedom to select, I just found it quite useful:
https://openkeystore.googlecode.com/svn/wcpp-payment-demo/trunk/docs/messages.html

Anders