[Laszlo-dev] JSON

[P T Withington]

I thought it was already used to send data "over the wire" to the  
client and then is parsed into XML on the client side?

On 2009-04-10, at 09:08EDT, Sebastian Wagner wrote:

> will this also have an effect to the way data is send to the Client?
>
> one possible library we could piggy back is http://jsontools.berlios.de/
>
>
> sebastian
>
> 2009/4/10 P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com>:
>> Will be a part of the forthcoming ECMAScript 5 standard.  I suspect  
>> it will
>> be available in early forms in many of the browsers.  I thought you  
>> were
>> already using it in the LFC, so maybe we should export it at the  
>> API so it
>> is generally available for LZX?  It looks like Lorien (cc-ed) might  
>> be able
>> to use it.
>>
>> I believe the main bits are:
>>
>> JSON.stringify which takes an Object and produces a string, and  
>> JSON.parse
>> which takes a string and produces an Object (similar to the one  
>> that was
>> stringified).
>>
>> The built-in data types each have a method .toJSON that can be  
>> overridden,
>> and stringify and parse each take an optional filter function that  
>> can be
>> used to restrict or extend the encoding.
>>
>> There is probably an open source implementation of the proposed  
>> standard
>> that we could grab for runtimes that do not yet have it built in.   
>> Check out
>> http://json.org.
>>
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