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Re: [Json] Using JSON in log files

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Wed, 20 November 2013 19:20 UTC

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta@gmail.com>wrote:

> This is one of canonical use-cases for streaming JSON processing: just use
> linefeed between root-level values. Many/most streaming JSON readers
> support this, especially Java ones (Jackson definitely does; GSON has
> streaming mode, Genson as well; org.json's toy lib should not be used for
> anything).
> It also makes it easier to read, should you need to check out log files.
>
> Or, if you want to be strictly compliant with specs, use a container JSON
> array.
> Streaming readers (and generators) should work fine here as well.
> There is no need to buffer the whole log stream in buffer either when
> reading or writing.
>

Thanks, I will do that.

Given that this seems to be a common extension, shouldn't we document it as
such?

What other common extensions are in use?


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