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Proposal / RFC: Change xAP wire format
- Subject: Proposal / RFC: Change xAP wire format
- From: "patricklidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:45:47 -0000
I would like to propose a fundamental change to xAP - adopting JSON
notation for the wireformat. JSON (RFC4627 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
/ json.org for further details) is now an established standard, with wide
cross-platform and cross-language support.
A wide array of parsers are available off-the-shelf. It is very similar to
the existing wireformat, which pre-dates JSON, and the JSON manifesto
incorporates many of the design aims of the original format (such as XML
being too complex/too fat for optimal use on embedded devices).
Whilst retrofitting support to existing apps would be slightly painful, the
fact that most libraries and frameworks abstract the parsing, and that
there are inherent similarities, wouldn't make the switch too bad from a
developer perspective, and that burden is outweighed by the adoption of a
standard IMO.
Thoughts?
Patrick
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