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Re: Just JSON, and extensibility

To: Jorge Williams <jorge.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@xxxxxxxx>
From: Caitlin Bestler <Caitlin.Bestler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:53:01 +0000
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Cc: Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "<openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: Just JSON, and extensibility

The argument that XML has better extensibility than JSON isn't very convincing to my ears.

I'm an old war horse, and recall extending message formats in ANSI C so as to maintain backwards
compatibility with existing clients (by versioning the struct name itself and always keeping the same
fields up front).

If this problem could be solved in ANSI C, the solutions available to Python with JSON can only be better.

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Re: Just JSON, and extensibility
From: Justin Santa Barbara, 2012-04-13

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Re: Image API v2 Draft 4
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Just JSON, and extensibility
From: Mark Nottingham, 2012-04-13
Re: Just JSON, and extensibility
From: Jorge Williams, 2012-04-13