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

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Thu, 04 February 2016 15:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] On flat vs nested JSON encoding style
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On 2016-02-04 16:39, Carsten Bormann wrote:

> Requiring the encoder to send data in a particular sequence is
> theoretically possible, but in practice just means you lose that part of
> the ecosystem that happens not to do that

This ecosystem is rapidly diminishing since ECMAScript nowadays mandates
strict insertion/declaration order for serialization.

In addition, if you deal with signed data like specified by JWS, don't you
anyway lose the ability to do smart sequential processing?

That is, there are undoubtedly a bunch of applications where a nested scheme
like proposed by PHB is the wat to go, but claiming universality would IMO
be a bit of a stretch.

Anders

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