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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by shadowgovt on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:00PM (#23636445)
But pretending JSON or YAML is something you can safely "change one string" on is a recipe for disaster unless you have total control of the whole pipe chain, input to output.
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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by mike_ivanov on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:00PM (#23642790)
How is it less safe than changing them in a (scriptable) text editor?
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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by shadowgovt on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:40PM (#23643292)
It's not. Neither is a safe approach. A safe approach to mutating JSON is something like a small amount of JS to read in the JSON, mutate it as javascript objects, and JSON.stringify the result.
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