Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be unique.

Matthew Morley <matt@mpcm.com> Thu, 06 June 2013 01:56 UTC

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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:56:02 -0400
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From: Matthew Morley <matt@mpcm.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Cc: Stephan Beal <sgbeal@googlemail.com>, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>, "json@ietf.org" <json@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be unique.
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Markus Lanthaler
> <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:
> > I've seen people using this for comments. People relied on the fact that
> serializers ignored all but the last occurrence of a key.
>
> Oh, this might actually be important.  Perhaps the best way to handle
> comments is to have the "schema" (if there is one, stated or
> otherwise) specify some keys as being comments, but that doesn't help
> for free-form data.
>

The best way to handle 'comments' is to have them be first class citizens
in the data. It is a topic that goes back a long way, and since they were
removed with intention then, using ambiguity in the specification to re-add
them seems like a poor approach now.

> If I were doing this duplicate-keys-for-comments thing and wanted to
> ensure interop I'd triplicate them instead, with the value I actually
> want decoded sent first and last, and the comment sandwiched in
> between.  Painful.
>

Like a poorly structure compliment sandwich... best avoided. ;)

-- 
Matthew P. C. Morley

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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… R S
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stefan Drees
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stefan Drees
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Paul Hoffman
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stephen Dolan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stefan Drees
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Nico Williams
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stephan Beal
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Levine
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Stephen Dolan
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Jorge Chamorro
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… John Cowan
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Jorge Chamorro
Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)
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Re: [Json] The names within an object SHOULD be u… Tatu Saloranta
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