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Re: CIF-JSON draft 2017-05-15



On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 May 2017 at 02:37, James Hester <jamesrhester@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had misunderstood Bob's proposal. Yes, I can see the benefit of an outer
> object with a single "CIF-JSON" key.

Do I understand correctly that the only benefit is that the "CIF-JSON"
string will be in the first bytes of the file?
It's still not enough to tell if JMol can handle this file. It may
contain a structure that JMol can show or structure factors that (I
guess) JMol can't show.
And once the JSON is parsed it's equally easy to check for the "CIF-JSON" key.

This isn't particularly an issue. The issue is registering this format relative to other JSON formats that Jmol *can* read.

 

The downside is one more layer of wrapping.
json["CIF-JSON"].block.item
vs
json.block.item

Yes, that's basically the cost. More that it requires one more object call:

cif = json["CIF-JSON"]
metadata = cif.Metadata
data = cif.["someDataBlockCode"]
...

instead of

cif = json
metadata = cif.Metadata
data = cif.["someDataBlockCode"]

I suggest it is worth the 14 bytes.

Bob

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