[Windmill-dev] JSON Parsing

[Bobby Rullo]

that's awesome!
On Dec 6, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> Checked in to r569.
>
> This will end up in the next windmill release, 0.3, expected to be  
> finalized tomorrow.
>
> -Mikeal
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at December 6, 20071:30 PM, Bobby Rullo wrote:
>
>> It is pretty doable. You would just to write a regex expression  
>> like (roughly) "\{.*\}" - in English, "match on stuff between  
>> braces, greedily" and then iterate through the matches. Each match  
>> would be 1 JSON object, and it would be compatible with what's  
>> already there.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>>
>>> That's just not doable.
>>>
>>> The actual file isn't valid json, it's a json object per line. We
>>> split on line separators and parse each object. We wouldn't be  
>>> able to
>>> parse "pretty json" unless we wrote another parser on top of the  
>>> json
>>> parser.
>>>
>>> In addition, any formatting you do to those files will be lost if  
>>> the
>>> file is loaded in to the IDE, edited, and re-saved.
>>>
>>> If you want better looking multi-line formatting you can use  
>>> python. I
>>> actually was in the process of moving initialize.json to python for
>>> that very reason, but i noticed that the API calls for registering
>>> variables is so ugly that even moving to python didn't help since
>>> instead of kwargs it takes a list of strings split on "|", which i
>>> think we should really try to fix in the next release.
>>>
>>> In the next release I would push for moving this;
>>>
>>> {"method": "commands.createVariables",
>>> "params":{"variables":["dvSaveButton| 
>>> cosmo 
>>> .app 
>>> .pim 
>>> .layout 
>>> .baseLayout 
>>> .mainApp 
>>> .rightSidebar.detailViewForm.buttonSection.saveButton.widgetId"}}
>>>
>>> To the more sane;
>>> {"method": "commands.createVariables",
>>> "params": 
>>> {"dvSaveButton 
>>> ":"cosmo 
>>> .app 
>>> .pim 
>>> .layout 
>>> .baseLayout 
>>> .mainApp 
>>> .rightSidebar.detailViewForm.buttonSection.saveButton.widgetId"}}
>>>
>>> -Mikeal
>>>
>>> On Dec 6, 2007, at December 6, 200711:40 AM, Bobby Rullo wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be nice if the JSON parser would work on so-called  
>>>> "pretty printed" json. Right now it only seems to work of the  
>>>> whole structure is one line.
>>>>
>>>> This would make stuff like initialize.json MUCH more readable.
>>>>
>>>> bobby	
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