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

Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by bgamari on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:44PM (#13871305)

Isn't this just a reinvention of Canonical JSON [1]? There were efforts [2] to standardize it, although it seems this fizzled out.

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Canonical_JSON

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-staykov-hu-json-canon...

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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by seagreen on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:54PM (#13871372)

Thanks for brining Canonical JSON up. There's an issue to investigate it here: https://github.com/seagreen/Son/issues/7

It doesn't appear that Canonical JSON does anything about redundant escape sequences in JSON. I'm still looking into it to be sure. This is a big part of the motivation behind the Son spec, and represents about half the EBNF: https://github.com/seagreen/Son/blob/master/son.ebnf#L19

For anyone else who knows of more JSON subsets, if you report them here: https://housejeffries.com/page/7 it would be really appreciated. I definitely don't want to do duplicate work.

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