Re: CouchDB and MongoDB

[Martin Holst Swende <martin () swende se>]

Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Martin Holst Swende <martin () swende se> wrote:
>   
> > I have now implemented the following :
> > - json.lua is heavily reworked (and now according to specs :)) - except
> > for Unicode collapsing into UTF-8, which is not done. If you have any
> > good pointers on how to do that it is welcome. There is an issue with js
> > null vs lua nil (which are different - lua nil is more like javascript
> > undefined), which forced me to introduce json.NULL - more info about
> > that is found in the code.
> >     
>
> Is there a reason you chose not to use known Lua libraries that handle
> JSON (e.g. [1])? I have not looked at your code any so I don't know
> the differences. It would suck to replicate effort when polished
> libraries exist.
>
> [1] http://luaforge.net/projects/luajson/
>
>   
Yes and no. I took a quick look at what libraries existed, but license
issues (of which I am no expert) and/or overly complicated behaviour put
me off. For example, the luaforge-library is 10+files (not counting
testcases) and, in addition, requires Lpeg, a complete library for
parsing grammar. Had Json been a lot more complex than it actually is,
that perhaps had seemed the best solution. That being said, other
implementations may be better than mine, and if you have any suggestions
once you have looked at the code they are most welcome.

/Martin
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