Re: [OAUTH-WG] application/x-www-form-urlencoded vs JSON (Proposal)

[Marius Scurtescu <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Torsten Lodderstedt
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Am 05.05.2010 20:14, schrieb Marius Scurtescu:
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Torsten Lodderstedt
>> <[e-mail]>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Even if not supported directly by the platform there are many JSON
>>> libraries
>>> available these days.
>>>
>>> http://www.json.org/ lists 3 libraries for Objective-C alone.
>>>
>>> Moreover, the JSON documents we are discussing now are simple, something
>>> like
>>>
>>> { "access_token": "SlAV32hkKG", "expires_in": "3600", "refresh_token":
>>> "8xLOxBtZp8" }
>>>
>>> Parsing such a document is not a challenge even without library support.
>>>
>>
>> I never written such code, but I imagine it would be quite complicated
>> and error prone. You have to deal with escaping, white spaces and
>> nested data structures.
>>
>> Marius
>>
>
> we don't need nested data structure (at least currently). Where do you see a
> need for escaping?

How do you represent " { } , and : inside names and values? You
probably need full blown lexer and parser for JSON.

Marius