Hello!
One thing I discovered when I tried to encode a big s-exp with encode-json-to-string is that it doesn't support characters.
This kind of makes sense, since JSON itself doesn't have a separate "character" type, and some of the big usrs of JSON (ECMAscript and Python) don't, either. A JSON decoder couldn't tell what's a length-1 string, and what's a character.
OTOH, for my program, it would be really handy to *encode* characters directly.
I decided to try writing a patch, after about 5 seconds came up with this:
(defmethod encode-json ((c character) stream) (encode-json (string c) stream))
Since this is Lisp, it's both insanely easy, and it doesn't have to be part of cl-json for me to use it as if it was. :-)
I guess it doesn't really benefit me for this to be part of cl-json, but if that's of any use to you, feel free to use/add it.
cheers,
- Ken
It seems lika a good idea, so I have applied your patch to the darcs repository.
Thanks, Henrik
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:00 -0800, Ken Harris wrote:
Hello!
One thing I discovered when I tried to encode a big s-exp with encode-json-to-string is that it doesn't support characters.
This kind of makes sense, since JSON itself doesn't have a separate "character" type, and some of the big usrs of JSON (ECMAscript and Python) don't, either. A JSON decoder couldn't tell what's a length-1 string, and what's a character.
OTOH, for my program, it would be really handy to *encode* characters directly.
I decided to try writing a patch, after about 5 seconds came up with this:
(defmethod encode-json ((c character) stream) (encode-json (string c) stream))
Since this is Lisp, it's both insanely easy, and it doesn't have to be part of cl-json for me to use it as if it was. :-)
I guess it doesn't really benefit me for this to be part of cl-json, but if that's of any use to you, feel free to use/add it.
cheers,
- Ken
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