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Bartsch, Rene
renne.bartsch at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 23 15:19:00 CEST 2012
Am 23.07.2012 15:04:07, schrieb Robert Kisteleki: > On 2012.07.18. 15:45, Matija Grabnar wrote: > > On 07/18/2012 03:08 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > >> To that end, if RIPE could produce a template/example in a few popular > >> languages (perl, python, ruby, php) to download the JSON and parse into > >> the native language data structure that could get a LOT more folks using > >> the data... > >> > > > > You can fins a bunch of decoders in more languages than I count on > > > http://www.json.org/ > > Hi, > > It's really nice to see the community in action :-) It is a rather > encouraging sign to us! > > To answer Leo's original question from a different perspective: the result > data you get from Atlas is a structured piece of information. We had to > choose a specific encoding, and we opted for JSON (as opposed to YAML, XML, > etc.) because in many cases that can be directly used in client side > applications. We *could* supply other formats too, but no matter what the > encoding is, you need some kind of client library to parse it. > In my opinion, JSON is the best solution as it is strictly UTF-8 (yes, no garbled characters, anymore!) and either server-side PHP-functions or client-side Javascript-functions can decode it directly into multi-dimensional objects or arrays. And you can encode any Javascript- or PHP-datatype into JSON with one function call. Regards, Renne -- Sent with love from the new tine 2.0 email client ... Please visit http://tine20.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/attachments/20120723/61f29576/attachment.html>
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