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Re:How to Use JSON Path by lucianbr on Friday May 03, 2024 @11:14AM (#40248633)
What's the problem with nodes supporting or not some properties? For querying you can treat all nodes as supporting all things, and the user just needs to write a query that acutually works, which is what they would need to do anyway.

Yes, if you want to make the query language reject as incorrect queries that specify a property on a node that can't have properties, it is messy. But is this really necessary? You can write faulty queries anyway. And it's not a programming language for complex systems, where it really helps to prevent mistakes early. SQL works fine with no type safety and so on.

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Re:How to Use JSON Path by PurpleRamen on Friday May 03, 2024 @11:43AM (#40248971)
The problem is that you can't easily reuse a query with different formats, with a swallow designed language. You will still end up writing format-targeted queries, which then open the question of why you would even bother in the first place using a watered down language, instead of a format-optimized one.
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