Jansson 2.2 is out. This release adds a new encoding function and fixes some minor bugs and documentation glitches. The new encoding function,...
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pozzugno
Sep 6, 2011 4:30 pm
Dear group, I'm a firmware developer on small embedded platform. Until now, I used to read/write the in-memory configuration C structures (with padding bytes)...
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jonathan wallace
ninja9578
Sep 6, 2011 5:12 pm
I don't see why not. Â JSON is lightweight, I use it for configuration all the time. Â I maintain a project called libjson that might work well for you....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Sep 6, 2011 5:28 pm
Silicon Valley Codecamp is a free software development conference held at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. I will be presenting there again this...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Sep 6, 2011 5:36 pm
... Update: This year only, it will be held in 2011....
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pozzugno
Sep 6, 2011 6:43 pm
... It sounds interesting, I'll look at it in short time. Thank you for your suggestion....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Sep 9, 2011 1:36 pm
The JSON page is now available in Danish, thanks to Michael Kramer. http://json.org/json-da.html...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 1:15 pm
Hey Guys, I am currently working on what I hope to be a 1:1 binary JSON specification (no custom data types supported like BSON or BJSON, just binary...
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Stephan Beal
stephan.beal
Sep 21, 2011 1:23 pm
... Keep in mind that JSON does not specify any required numeric precision, and some platforms cannot use int64. (JavaScript specifies 53 bits of precision, in...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 1:26 pm
Addendum: "Number" is broken into 4 types... it is early here: byte, int32, int64, double...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 1:58 pm
Stephan, Great feedback, these are exactly the kind of nuances I wanted to uncover and discuss. When I dug through the language specs looking for the most...
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Stephan Beal
stephan.beal
Sep 21, 2011 2:12 pm
... i've been using doubles for that purpose in that particular JS engine (v8). I found no way to deserialize JavaScript objects directly from a ... The "new"...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 3:29 pm
... Do you happen to have a link? This is something I'd like to know more about/play with a bit. Best, Riyad...
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Stephan Beal
stephan.beal
Sep 21, 2011 3:32 pm
... Here's a couple... http://www.lbi.co.uk/blog/latest/typed-arrays-in-javascript/ http://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/ -- ... ...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
Sep 21, 2011 3:40 pm
... It's notable that neither of these provides an int64 type, only signed and unsigned 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit integers plus short and long floats. -- Dream...
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Tatu Saloranta
cowtowncoder
Sep 21, 2011 4:45 pm
... You might be interested in an existing such specification called Smile: http://wiki.fasterxml.com/SmileFormatSpec which was specified about a year ago, has...
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Tatu Saloranta
cowtowncoder
Sep 21, 2011 4:48 pm
Btw, forgot to add: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:15 AM, rkalla123 <rkalla@...> wrote: ... It would be great if you could contribute this to jvm-serialziers,...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Sep 21, 2011 5:12 pm
... A couple of things from a quick skim of the document: * "As with JSON, all Strings are encoding in UTF-8" The *default* JSON encoding is UTF-8, but JSON...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
Sep 21, 2011 5:22 pm
... Fortunately, these points don't affect the actual protocol, just the explanation. -- LEAR: Dost thou call me fool, boy? John Cowan FOOL: All thy other...
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Stephan Beal
stephan.beal
Sep 21, 2011 5:44 pm
... Thank you for that. Smile's requirement that impls be capable of supporting "shared strings" seems a bit draconian to me, though. That adds non-trivial ...
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Don Owens
regexman
Sep 21, 2011 6:27 pm
What happens if you need to encode an integer larger than 64-bits? Shouldn't there be a way to encode a large integer as a buffer with a byte length? I don't...
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Stephan Beal
stephan.beal
Sep 21, 2011 6:42 pm
... It specifies neither a limit nor a minimum, at least as far as i was able to dig out of the RFC a few months ago. A 2-bit limit is, strictly speaking, ...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 6:58 pm
Don, Interesting point. Stephan and I had a discussion this morning about the portability of the numeric types across most (all) platforms breaking down when...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 7:01 pm
Tatu, I'd love to get this into jvm-serializers; I have been utilizing the same test data (MediaContent) and models for testing to try and get relatable...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 7:07 pm
Martin, Great catches, both issues fixed in the specification and my mind expanded accordingly ;)...
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rkalla123
Sep 21, 2011 7:42 pm
In another thread I submitted a proposal for a binary format specification for JSON that you might find handy in an embedded system: ...
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Stephan Beal
stephan.beal
Sep 21, 2011 8:27 pm
... It sounds like binary is your best bet, but if you're willing to hack/experiment a little... i have a portable C89/C99 json library ( ...
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Mark Joseph
markjoseph_sc
Sep 21, 2011 10:10 pm
I don't see the point of using something new for binary data. Clearly this is not JSON. If you have an application that needs an encoding that handles...
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Don Owens
regexman
Sep 21, 2011 11:57 pm
I've seen very large numbers used in JSON. In Perl, that can be represented as a Math::BigInt object. And that is the way I have implemented it in my JSON...
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rkalla123
Sep 22, 2011 2:50 am
Don, I see your point. The way I understand it is that this would require 2 new data types, effectively BigInt and BigDecimal. So say something along these...
