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Re: [Json] On flat vs nested JSON encoding style

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 05 February 2016 07:41 UTC

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Anders Rundgren wrote:
> 18 months

JSON has been around for more than a decade.  It would take another
decade for a change that goes so deep into the fundamentals to become
widespread (and sufficiently debugged* on enough platforms to become
reliable).

Wake me up when, say, ArduinoJson supports your form of canonicalization.

Grüße, Carsten

*) Decimal number representation code is hard.  (I'm too lazy to look up
the CVEs to provde this.)  Even sorting text is not exactly easy.

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