On 11/2/06, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Bob Ippolito schrieb:
> > On 11/2/06, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to build a nice widget-wrapper around the YUI-component lib.
> >> Things are nice and smooth except for one thing: the components can get
> >> effects as arguments, basically a constructor and some arguments.
> >>
> >> Now this is what the generated JS looks like:
> >>
> >> resizepanelwin = new YAHOO.widget.Panel("resizepanelwin",
> >> {"visible": false,
> >>   "effect": {"duration": 0.25, "effect":
> >> "YAHOO.widget.ContainerEffect.FADE"},
> >> "constraintoviewport": true,
> >> "draggable": true, "width": "23em",
> >> "modal": false, "close": true,
> >> "underlay": "none", "fixedcenter": true} );
> >>
> >>
> >> as you can see, the effect.effect is a string. Yet it should be rendered
> >> without quotes, so that the eval will evaluate it to the
> >> constructor/callable.
> >>
> >> Any suggestion on how to make that happen?
> >
> > You don't, that's not JSON. You need to process it in JavaScript to
> > get the objects you want.
> >
> > result.effect.effect = eval(result.effect.effect);
>
> Okay. I can use that. However, because I didn't think of that
> possibility, I dug into the simplejson code and introduced a
> JSLiteral-class that can wrap a string to simply pass it through without
> encoding.
>
> I do like that better than your proposed solution for a simple reason:
> it's simpler :)
>
> Now - your comment implies that JSON is specfied in a certain way, which
> doesn't allow for this. Ok. But I think that I have a real usecase here.
> Especially when there are situations where one can't control the
> javascript that will use the JSON-output (which I'm capable of, in this
> case, but other cases one can't), it might save one from larger troubles.

That's simply ridiculous. If the script expects JSON, then it isn't
going to require things that are impossible with JSON!

> Are you adamant about not putting it into simplejson?

There is absolutely no way I will add features to simplejson that
encourage people to produce documents that are not valid JSON.

-bob

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