Re: [apps-discuss] Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

[Dave Cridland <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > I would like to have available a BER like encoding for JSON.
>
> What is it that you like about BER?
> (And, as you mentioned there are a couple, which BER do you like :-)?
>
>
There's only one BER, but there are also DER, CER, PER, XER, and probably
others I can't instantly recall.


> > But this proposal seems to be something rather different.
>
> We try to learn.
>
> CBOR can sure do everything a "BER for JSON" could do.  And a little more.
>

I think that's the right approach.

My only concerns - not hills to die on, but worth discussion, I think - are
that:

 - I'd be keen to see a clean subset defined which always can be translated
to JSON. My gut feeling is that this would be useful.

 - I'm instantly put on guard by the notion that there are multiple
representations for the number 7. I would in general much prefer to see
only one. I admit this may not be possible, or simple - maps, for instance,
have no intrinsic ordering, enforcing an integer use the most compact
representation is awkward, and so on. But having a canonical representation
might well be missed later.

Dave.