Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset

Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by voltagex_ on Thursday April 21, 2016 @11:10PM (#11546824)

Open question to anyone reading this: Would you use Ion if you were designing a new house-wide message queue? (e.g. broadcast messages to /Home/Lounge/Lights/ to turn on/off)

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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by pmontra on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:59AM (#11547323)

Maybe, when Ion gets supports for most major languages. I won't touch it now because it means to go Java for every application that reads or writes to that queue. Not because of Java, but because it's only one language. It should get on par with support for the other formats listed in the comments before one should be confident to use it.

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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by jinst8gmi on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:54AM (#11547859)

At least the JVM supports multiple languages (Scala, Clojure etc.), but if there's a spec it shouldn't be hard for anyone to add support for other languages.

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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by tantalor on Thursday April 21, 2016 @11:23PM (#11546867)

No that's overkill, just use JSON.

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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by userbinator on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:05AM (#11547170)

Even JSON is overkill for an application like that. Pure binary would be my choice.

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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by voltagex_ on Thursday April 21, 2016 @11:34PM (#11546907)

This is offtopic, but I'm looking into having JSON schemas on another Mosquitto topic so that clients can request it, kinda like SOAP's WSDL (recovering C# programmer here).

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