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Re: CIF-JSON draft 2017-05-15

Ah, now I understand. I was thinking along what James wrote - that"CIF-JSON" would just replace "Metadata".
I like what James proposed, and although there is a benefit in havinga magic string near the beginning, I'd rather avoid an extra level inthe hierarchy.After a program parses JSON (without knowing what kind of JSON it is),checking for "CIF-JSON" is easy regardless if it is a single key, orone of many keys.
Going back to the draft. It mandates a schema:
iv schema-uri: a URI for the CIF-JSON schema.
Would it be a schema from json-schema.org? How would it look like?Very few things can be verified in CIF-JSON without knowing acorresponding DDL.
Marcin
On 17 May 2017 at 13:11, Robert Hanson <hansonr@stolaf.edu> wrote:> My proposal is that everything we have been talking about {...} be wrapped> by a self-identifying object with the single item "CIF-JSON":>> {"CIF-JSON":{....}}>> So while it is possible that there will be white-space:>> {>   "CIF-JSON":>> {....}>>> }>> it is highly probable that this white space would be minimal, and that> certainly within the first N finite number of characters we would see> "CIF-JSON".>> Or, if a reader does need to read the entire file to process any JSON data> of any sort instead of streaming the data (Jmol might do this, too), then at> least we know that the outer object will have a single key, and that key> will be "CIF-JSON".>> It occurs to me that we could then also allow concatenation such as:>> [> {"CIF-JSON":{...}}> ,> {"CIF-JSON":{...}}> ,> {"CIF-JSON":{...}}> ,> ...> ]>> This would allow services such as COD to easily deliver multiple CIF-JSON> structures without worrying about what the CCDC fails to do -- modify the> data_ lines when concatenating.>>>> Bob>>>> _______________________________________________> cif-developers mailing list> cif-developers@iucr.org> http://mailman.iucr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cif-developers>_______________________________________________cif-developers mailing listcif-developers@iucr.orghttp://mailman.iucr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cif-developers

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