From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-09-07T15:35:37+09:00
Subject: Re: json for extjs (without rails)


On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> ara.t.howard wrote:
>> # i prefer the pure-ruby version of json
>
> Why's that?

simply because it's easy to drop in a rails project's lib dir and  
forget about it - also because it's simple to hack if needed.

>
>
>> # even if you defined your own classes i personally prefer to  
>> translate to
>> # 'simple' javascript structures
>
> Gives up the possibility reverse translation though... but I think I  
> agree that building everything out of the 4 native types is best.


yeah, it's so easy to unpack a simple data structure in js into  
objects anyhow and, best of all, you can always read simple json.

cheers.

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