Has anybody hacked a simple zipping algorithm for JavaScript terse literal constructs such as Arrays and Objects (JSON)? I am doing so much data piping through...
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Andrew Durdin
adurdin
Dec 21, 2005 3:18 am
... Obfuscation will not give you good security. If you want security for your data, then the most straightforward way is to use https for your JSON requests. ...
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TCQ
despam2004
Dec 21, 2005 4:58 am
... for your data, then the most straightforward way is to use https for your JSON requests. I agree and am doing the https route but since I am mostly...
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Paul Hanlon
pthanlonie
Dec 21, 2005 3:52 pm
Hi All, I wonder if anyone can help.I come from a background of programming in PHP, and am only just beginning to get to grips with the power of Javascript....
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Michal Migurski
michal_migurski
Dec 21, 2005 5:06 pm
The javascript for/in syntax actually iterates over the properties of an object or indexes of an array. Javascript's "for(index in array)" is roughly...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Dec 21, 2005 5:22 pm
The value of i in the for/in loop is a string that represents the name of the object's property being enumerated for that iteration. You need to index the...
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pthanlonie
Dec 21, 2005 7:40 pm
Hi, Thanks so much. I've been tearing my hair out. When I tried brs.i.text, and it didn't work, I never thought to use the brackets. I'll need to rejig my JSON...
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f3l
kyoosho
Dec 21, 2005 7:52 pm
http://www.west.co.tt/matt/js/redbug/redbug.html he alzo zips his source, WARNING: the demo may slow down your browser. ... -- //f3l ...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Dec 21, 2005 8:22 pm
... This may be more than you're looking for, but you might want to take a look at Dojo ShrinkSafe: http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/shrinksafe/ -- Martin Cooper I...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 24, 2005 5:00 pm
JSON_checker is a pushdown automaton in C. It very quickly scans a JSON texts and determines if it is strictly syntactically correct. See ...
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Michal Migurski
michal_migurski
Dec 24, 2005 5:30 pm
This could be a useful thing to have in JS, for security goof checks prior to the very-dangerous eval(). -mike. ... michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: ...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Dec 24, 2005 6:53 pm
Are comments officially out of the specification? It seems so looking at the current state of the spec http://www.json.org/. ... existing decoders can continue...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 24, 2005 8:32 pm
JSON does not have comments. A JSON encoder MUST NOT output comments. A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments. Comments should never be used to transmit...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Dec 25, 2005 1:54 am
... Not now, but it used to have comments. I believe it's time to start versioning the spec. Several things have changed, and people have different ...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Dec 25, 2005 7:21 pm
As Martin already said, JSON used to have comments. I don't know what led to the stringent opinion (perhaps from field experience) that they are so harmful as...
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MPCM
mpcmtechnolo...
Dec 26, 2005 4:22 am
I had posted in the original thread talking about comments and wanted to follow up here as well. While meta data, like comments, might be useful, the only way...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 26, 2005 2:15 pm
These were the reasons for removing comments: First, comments turned out to not be very useful. Second, comments were the most difficult feature to support in...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 26, 2005 2:20 pm
I have a a new version of JSON.parse in JavaScript. It is vastly faster and smaller than the previous version. It uses a single call to eval to do the...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Dec 26, 2005 5:59 pm
... Then why not label the current version as JSON 1.0? -- Martin Cooper ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Dec 27, 2005 5:17 pm
I am assuming the order of reasons list was not significant. ... This is always rather subjective. When you consider that all text formats strive for and boast...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Dec 27, 2005 6:27 pm
... I don't really consider comments as meta-data, unless you mean in the style of javadocs. I see comments as much a presentation aspect of the syntax as...
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Andrew Durdin
adurdin
Dec 28, 2005 12:08 am
... To be more robust, shouldn't it catch errors thrown due to malformed JSON that still passes the regex, like the following (fairly minimal case): ] Andrew...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 29, 2005 12:40 am
... The issue is "Is it safe?" The eval function is inherently unsafe. It allows a chunk of script to run with full authority. Some people have been relunctant...
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f3l
kyoosho
Dec 29, 2005 12:53 am
... but you still have the bookmarklets issue, right? anyone (ok, maybe not anyone, but some ppl) can type javascript:foobar() on the address bar and crap all...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 29, 2005 1:11 am
... javascript:foobar() on ... The specific problem is that you do not want to give a text from a 3rd party data server the same authority as your own scripts....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Dec 29, 2005 1:38 am
There is a new implementation of JSON in Python. See http://undefined.org/python/#simple_json...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 3, 2006 4:38 pm
... I would like to understand your intentions. Where commentary is important, it can be encoded directly in JSON, where the outermost object resembles a COBOL...
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Anthony Mouse
anthony.mouse
Jan 3, 2006 4:54 pm
What is the future of JSON? Yahoo is now supporting JSON for their WebServices - is that because Douglas Crockford works for Yahoo? What is the status of...
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MPCM
mpcmtechnolo...
Jan 3, 2006 5:00 pm
You may want to look through these messages of the group. I'm fairly certain everyone here would say it has a future, even without Yahoo in the picture. -- ...
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ingliss
Jan 3, 2006 5:20 pm
I don't expect this to apply to many people, and I'm not remarking on it as a shortcoming of JSON (because it clearly isn't), this is just for information: ...
