David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> I think the minimal functionality I'd want is:
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>> convert record to JSON
>> convert JSON to record
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> With caveats as to dealing with nested structures (can a record be an attribute of a record?).
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We allow composites as fields. The biggest mismatch in the type model is
probably w.r.t arrays. JSON arrays can be heterogenous and
non-rectangular, AIUI.
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>> extract a value, or set of values, from JSON
>> composition of JSON
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> There's a lot of functionality in hstore that I'd like to see. It'd make sense to use the same operators for the same
operations.I think I'd start with hstore as a basic spec.
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OK, but hstores are flat, unlike JSON. We need some way to do the
equivalent of xpath along the child axis and without predicate tests.
hstore has no real equivalent because it has no nesting.
cheers
andrew