Fwd: Unnecessarily complicate definition?

Relevant to the single-way-to-do-things discussion.

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Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:14 AM
Subject: Fwd: Unnecessarily complicate definition?
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Subject: Unnecessarily complicate definition?
Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:09:16 +0000
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:08:49 +0200
From: Michael Vogel <heluecht@pirati.ca>
To: public-socialweb-comments@w3.org

Hi!

I just had a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

Normally I really like JSON. But when I see the examples, then I think
that someone tried to make the worst out of the both worlds "JSON" and
"XML".

With a structure like this you may have to implement some kind of
"JQuery for JSON" to fetch the relevant data.

Data with only a single language could be written this way:

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "@type": "Object",
  "displayNameMap": {
    "en": "This is the title",
  }
}

Or that way:

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "@type": "Object",
  "displayName": "This is the title"
}

Or even that way:

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "@type": "Object",
  "displayName": {
    "@value": "This is the title",
    "@language": "en"
  }
}

And maybe there is some other way possible as well.

That really means that you need a parser that queries all these
variants. That really makes the things complicate.

I really would suggest a single definition. Flexibility maybe nice when
defining this stuff. But it is a nightmare in the implementation.

Michael







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