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Re: [Json] serializing sequences of JSON values

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Sat, 15 March 2014 00:50 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Cc: Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta@gmail.com>, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, "json@ietf.org" <json@ietf.org>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, Matt Miller <mamille2@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [Json] serializing sequences of JSON values
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m strongly negative about requiring people to avoid newlines in their
>> JSON in order to be able to string chunks of JSON together into a stream.
>> JSON is unambiguously and easily parsable.  To talk in abnf, I don’t think
>> we should be satisfied with anything less than this:
>>
>> JSON-sequence = JSON-text *(text-separator JSON-text)
>> text-separator = 1*(  %x20 / %x09 / %x0A / %x0D )
>>
>
> JSON-sequence = JSON-text *(text-separator JSON-text)
> text-separator = 1*(  %x20 / %x09 / %x0A / %x0D / %2C)

It's much better to say that a separator must follow every text, since
then there's no need to concern ourselves as to ambiguities.  It also
permits parsers to produce values for texts like 'true ' or '1 ' as
soon as the separator is read rather than waiting for a separator (or
EOF) that might take a while to arrive.

  JSON-sequence = *(JSON-text 1*(text-separator))
  text-separator = %x20 / %x09 / %x0A / %x0D / %2C

I see no value in adding a comma (%2C) to the above.

Nico
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