Re: [XHR] responseType "json"

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Jarred Nicholls <jarred@sencha.com>
> wrote:
> >  A good compromise would be to only throw it away (and thus restrict
> > responseText access) upon the first successful parse when accessing
> > .response.
>
> I disagree. Even though conceptually, the spec says that you first
> accumulate text and then you invoke JSON.parse, I think we should
> allow for implementations that feed an incremental JSON parser as data
> arrives from the network and throws away each input buffer after
> pushing it to the incremental JSON parser.
>
> That is, in order to allow more memory-efficient implementations in
> the future, I think we shouldn't expose responseText for JSON.
>

I'm completely down with that.  It still leaves an unsatisfied use case;
but one that, after a nice weekend of relaxation, I no longer care about.


>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@iki.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>
>


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