Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine communication

Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by mixedCase on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:08PM (#13870506)

Why not use something like Protobufs and Cap'n'Proto instead of yet another serialization format?

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:17PM (#13870592)

They require a schema. A schemaless binary serialization like CBOR or BSON is more amenable to JSON interchange.

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by k__ on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:06PM (#13871013)

How about http://msgpack.org/?

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by seagreen on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:03PM (#13872340)

Son's a niche tool to allow talking to JSON services in a more consistent way. It's not meant as an competitor to any other data format.

EDIT: s/alternative/competitor

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by CJefferson on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:24PM (#13870655)

I always find myself finding myself back with JSON. The advantage it can be parsed easily in any language -- everything has a JSON parser.

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by hnbroseph on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:12PM (#13871529)

protobufs are fairly wide spread... from action script to erlang to haskell to visual basic.

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by CJefferson on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:43PM (#13871733)

Last time I tried (6 months ago) I couldn't find a proto3 implementation for Haskell that was complete ( https://github.com/google/proto-lens doesn't do Any, https://github.com/alphaHeavy/protobuf doesn't do proto3). Maybe one exists, or I could use proto2 and rewrite the other system I was working with.

I decided it was easier in my case to just output JSON.

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by seagreen on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:01PM (#13872320)

Dang, `protobuf` doesn't support proto2? I'm kind of a Haskell die-hard, this is a big hole in our ecosystem=(

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by kentonv on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:37PM (#13881963)

You don't really need proto3, though. Proto2 is compatible and proto3 mostly only removes features.

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