[Kss-devel] summer of code proposal against Json/Exhibit support for Plone 3.5

[Joscha Krutzki]

Thanks for the quick answer, Joscha Krutzki

2007/3/23, Balazs Ree <ree at ree.hu>:
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:12:45 +0100 Joscha Krutzki wrote:
>
> > I would like to reuse the jsonserver Zope3 product to generate a Exhibit
> > Json view of objects
> > and to make a plone view with Exhibit filtering for objects.
> >
> > But you are the one who are making the plone javascript framwork, so I
> > need your opinion.
> > Are you planing to support json?
>
> I don't have time now at all but I will react to your letter next week.
>
> I am also one author of the jsonserver product, I also followed and
> participated in the discussion of the new jsonrpc working draft's
> proposal on Zope's side. Json and jsonrpc are supported by kss from the
> very beginning. This means that if the jsonserver product is detected the
> transport changes from default xml to the jsonrpc protocol. This is
> different though from what you aim at.
>
> We had different reasons not to spend much time on this issue:
>
> 1. We wanted to be as much independent from server side components as
> possible in the framework, and at the moment XML seemeed a more
> widespread web standard than json. (This is actually not entirely true
> any more in my opinion.)
>
> 2. It is really totally transparent on the kss application level, what
> transport is used physically: json or xml. So noone really notices the
> difference. We could have the possibility to marshall more complex data
> types with json in the transport (kss commands), but then we would be
> locked to use json from that moment, and loose xml. If we wanted to add
> the handling of complex variables to xml otoh, we would end up
> reimplementing json which is pretty pointless so here is one point where
> json may come back.
>
> I believe recently we removed the json support from kss because it did
> not seem to have any interest to maintain it and it costed too much work.
>
> On the other hand using json on different other levels in kss may make
> lots of sense.
>
> > Is it a good thing to integrate a json view of content objects in KSS?
> > Is it possible to support the Exhibit library in KSS?
>
> I cannot react to this because I would need much more time to answer.
> Mainly I have to look at Exhibit. So please in case I forget to react,
> let me remember, and let's get back to this soon.
>
> --
> Balazs Ree
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