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Defining JSON Referencing Convention with JSON Schema

22 January 2008

I have been involved in lengthy discussions on the best approach to JSON referencing. I have long wished for a single convention for JSON referencing, but the numerous approaches currently in use have frustrated my attempts at consensus. In some situations path-based referencing can be a very clean approach for intra-message referencing. On the otherhand, […]

JSON Referencing Proposal and Library

19 October 2007

Based upon discussions from this post, I wanted to bring together some of the different ideas and propose a convention for referencing that will be flexible, readable and usable for general purpose JSON usage and provide a JSON referencing library that implements referencing for the purposes of circular references, multiple references and intermessage references. From our […]

JSON Referencing Schemes

9 October 2007

I have been involved in some lively discussions around referencing in JSON, in particular Arthur Blake, the rest of JSON-RPC discussion group,  and I have been discussing circular referencing as a construct for JSON-RPC. However, I believe that the topic of referencing should be discussed in terms of more general JSON usage, rather than simply as […]