Facebooker talk - Feb 2008 - ApplicationProperties calls

Hey guys-

I''m nearly done implementing the new ApplicationProperties calls.  But
I want to get feedback on how to include JSON support.  We need to
encode and decode JSON to properly handle these calls.  I''m currenting
using ActiveSupport''s JSON implementation.  For those of you using
Facebooker as a Rails plugin, this will work great since ActiveSupport
is included with Rails, but we need a fallback solution for people
using just the gem without Rails.  Including all of ActiveSupport to
just support JSON seems overkill.  Should we go ahead and make
ActiveSupport a dependency on the gem, or is there a lighter-weight
JSON library that will fit our needs? Another option is just to
include our own JSON encoding/decoding without any dependencies.

Thanks,
Shane

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I vote for lighter weight.

This project looks pretty active:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/json

Dave

On Feb 12, 2008 8:11 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hey guys-
>
> I''m nearly done implementing the new ApplicationProperties calls. 
But
> I want to get feedback on how to include JSON support.  We need to
> encode and decode JSON to properly handle these calls.  I''m
currenting
> using ActiveSupport''s JSON implementation.  For those of you using
> Facebooker as a Rails plugin, this will work great since ActiveSupport
> is included with Rails, but we need a fallback solution for people
> using just the gem without Rails.  Including all of ActiveSupport to
> just support JSON seems overkill.  Should we go ahead and make
> ActiveSupport a dependency on the gem, or is there a lighter-weight
> JSON library that will fit our needs? Another option is just to
> include our own JSON encoding/decoding without any dependencies.
>
> Thanks,
> Shane
>
> --
> http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
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Thanks guys.  I actually looked at that gem first, but its interface
didn''t seem as simple as ActiveSupport''s, but I''ll
give it a second
look.

Shane

On Feb 13, 2008 12:26 PM, Andrew Grim <stopdropandrew at gmail.com>
wrote:
> The json gem is bad-ass, and it''s core is in C, so it''s
much faster than
> rails'' JSON implementation.  Also, it fully follows the JSON spec
while the
> rails version has some inconsistencies, last I checked anyway.
>
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 8:04 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > I vote for lighter weight.
> >
> > This project looks pretty active:
> >
> > http://rubyforge.org/projects/json
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 12, 2008 8:11 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > Hey guys-
> > >
> > > I''m nearly done implementing the new
ApplicationProperties calls.  But
> > > I want to get feedback on how to include JSON support.  We need
to
> > > encode and decode JSON to properly handle these calls. 
I''m currenting
> > > using ActiveSupport''s JSON implementation.  For those of
you using
> > > Facebooker as a Rails plugin, this will work great since
ActiveSupport
> > > is included with Rails, but we need a fallback solution for
people
> > > using just the gem without Rails.  Including all of ActiveSupport
to
> > > just support JSON seems overkill.  Should we go ahead and make
> > > ActiveSupport a dependency on the gem, or is there a
lighter-weight
> > > JSON library that will fit our needs? Another option is just to
> > > include our own JSON encoding/decoding without any dependencies.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Shane
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com |
http://myfitbuddy.com
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> > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
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> > >
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> >
>
>


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