I promised a few quibbles. GET seems troublesome. There seems no way in WD1.1 to distinguish a GET that wants a JSON response from a GET that wants a JSON-RPC...
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Jim Washington
jimcburg
Sep 6, 2006 9:59 pm
10.1 Service Procedure Description params is optional. OK But if params is not provided, the text specifies that "the procedure does not expect any...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 6, 2006 10:13 pm
I wonder if in that case the right solution wouldn't be to simply send back the data from the "result" member of the Procedure Return Object (and the "error"...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 6, 2006 10:58 pm
I just realized a problem with what I proposed earlier. FWIW, JSON text cannot be composed of a single String, Number, Boolean or Null value. It must be either...
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Balazs Ree
ree@...
Sep 7, 2006 5:51 am
... I would like to back up Jim's problem statement. When a request arrives to the server, it must be possible to decide if we have a JSON-RPC request or not...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 7, 2006 8:36 am
Sections 6.6 and 6.6.1 are probably more relevant for this discussion because that's what allows your case of optional versus required parameters to pass. I...
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Jim Washington
jimcburg
Sep 7, 2006 12:36 pm
Atif, Thank you for the response. I was just thinking in terms of how the data is likely to be used. "system.describe" is a MUST for a conforming JSON-RPC...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 7, 2006 5:20 pm
Point taken, Jim. I agree that there may be room for misunderstanding. I'll see what I can do to improve the wording or discussion around that topic. Perhaps a...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 10, 2006 10:37 am
... 1.1 WD only specifies "application/json" as an Accept parameter in the header to distinguish this from any other GET. Would "application/json-rpc" be a...
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Balazs Ree
ree@...
Sep 11, 2006 12:05 pm
Hi Atif, ... It *is* also about content negotiation. If a client requires a json-rpc response it won't accept a non-json-rpc response and vice versa. But I can...
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Wilfred Nilsen
wilfrednilsen
Sep 13, 2006 8:53 pm
I found the following comment in the new draft: Atif Aziz: Strictly disallow the use of cookies. Disallowing cookies will make it impossible to use JSON-RPC...
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Matt
WickedLogic@...
Sep 14, 2006 2:39 am
... Why not just leave this outside of the spec, instead of `must`? I definitely see lots of places where sessions would to be started outside of the rpc call...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 14, 2006 10:08 am
Matt + Wilfred, I wouldn't that note to heart. It was put in there to provoke some reaction and I have that reaction now. :) I'll be removing it moving forward...
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Jim Washington
jimcburg
Sep 14, 2006 1:16 pm
... Hi, Atif Nice to hear! I was wondering about that comment as well. Do you see an important distinction between a JSON-RPC "Service" and JSON-RPC as a...
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Matt
WickedLogic@...
Sep 14, 2006 2:18 pm
Jim, Perhaps I'm missing a finer point here. If a json-rpc service is listening, it either gathers what it needs from the environmental variables just like the...
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Matt
WickedLogic@...
Sep 14, 2006 2:33 pm
I agree with what you are saying, because ideally the service should function with all of it's requirements being fulfilled in the request channel and not rely...
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Jim Washington
jimcburg
Sep 14, 2006 2:42 pm
... That would be nice, except, From 6.3.1 in the WD, "The client MUST NOT use the JSON syntax for the parameter values." and "It is specifically not possible...
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Matt
WickedLogic@...
Sep 14, 2006 3:51 pm
On 9/14/06, Jim Washington <jwashin@...> wrote: That would be nice, except, ... Would someone be willing to go over the reasons behind not being able to...
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Andreas Hofmeister
andi@...
Sep 15, 2006 3:44 pm
Hi, it seems the current WD does not allow the specification of the structure of complex data types as parameter or result, basically because there is no way...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 17, 2006 6:10 pm
Hi Balazs, It's really a hard problem to solve entirely through Content-Type anyhow. The spec suggests "application/json" because that is the best-fit...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 18, 2006 6:24 am
Hi Jim, Isn't this the same problem as trying to disambiguate a JSON-RPC request from other types so that it could be handled off the same end-point? If so,...
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Jim Washington
jimcburg
Sep 18, 2006 2:06 pm
... Hi, Atif Yes. Thanks for the response. ... Yes. That is what we are aiming for as well. As I read the WD a bit closer, I am now understanding it to say...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 19, 2006 7:33 am
... Am I to understand from that, that a server implementation would not necessarily be nonconforming if it did not go to great lengths to support JSON-RPC GET...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 19, 2006 8:16 am
... Would someone be willing to go over the reasons behind not being able to pass a json-rpc request in json syntax as a `request object`? It seems somewhat...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 19, 2006 8:59 am
Andread, I did consider this, but unfortunately, it seemed that baking anything short of an entire schema language for JSON would be a kludge and a problem...
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Matt
WickedLogic@...
Sep 19, 2006 2:23 pm
Atif, Thank you for the reply. I completely understand your points, it just caught me off guard that the option to pass a raw json-rpc request object was...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Sep 21, 2006 4:28 pm
Hi Matt, ... Even if it seems simple from client/server implementation perspective, the problem is that it's not very GET-proper. Moreover, if the spec allows...
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Matt
WickedLogic@...
Sep 22, 2006 11:41 am
Atif, Thank you for the reply. Seemingly as I am the only one concerned I'll drop the topic. ; ) (Seems like the sort of thing best discussed over a cup of...
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Wilfred Nilsen
wilfrednilsen
Sep 27, 2006 10:32 pm
I am currently implementing JSON-RPC server/client and I have decided not to follow some of the requirements from the specification. I am one of the developers...
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Matt
WickedLogic@...
Sep 28, 2006 3:14 pm
... Why exactly would this be difficult? ... Would you mind pointing out the reference in the working draft? (On a separate note, in October I'll be at...
