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Re: [Json] 2-step proposal 4627bis + I-JSON

"Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> Thu, 04 July 2013 01:36 UTC

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From: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, "json@ietf.org" <json@ietf.org>
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> 2. Recharter in a way that will allow us to produce something like a
> strawman I cooked up, I-JSON: https://www.tbray.org/tmp/i-json.html
> Produce something like that. Second victory!
>  -T

I-JSON has some great sections, but..

"urn:ietf:i-json":true  -- Ugh? Why? How do you think this would be used by apps receiving JSON? Do they switch between rejecting dups vs accepting last dup based on the presence of this element? Sounds unlikely.

"which MUST be the first member of the top-level object" -- please don't have this. It violates the rule that object elements are *unordered*, which just encourages more such violations.


We could claim victory if this spec encouraged most "common" JSON parsers to be modified so they could say they are I-JSON-compliant. That requires "common" parsers to switch to throwing an error when a dup is detected, instead of silently accepting the last value. I would love to see that, but I have seen no sign that this is likely.
 
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James Manger

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