[e-lang] deJSONKit - serialization as JSON from E

[Tyler Close]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On May 22, 2009, at 0:40, Tyler Close wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:
>>> (Hm, though you don't AFAIK have any syntax for cycles?
>>
>> I avoid representing cycles directly in JSON by snipping the JSON tree
>> at the promises. Where a promise appears, I output an "@" element in
>> its place. Client code can then  reconstruct the cycle. For example,
>>
>> resource at: <./#s=1234>:
>>
>> {
>>    "name" : "I am recursive",
>>    "self": { "@" : "./#s=1234" }
>> }
>
> Right, but there's no syntax to bind (define) #s=1234 within the JSON.

The fragment is not making a deep reference into the JSON text; it's
referring to the resource as a whole. Perhaps the following example
will be clearer:

resource at: <http://example.com/foo.json>:

{
   "name" : "I am recursive",
   "self": { "@" : "http://example.com/foo.json" }
}

Which a client can reconstruct into a JSON container having 2 members:
one with a text string value and another with a reference to the JSON
container.

--Tyler

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