First, let me say I wasn’t knocking 4D but answering the question Kirk Brooks asked: "At the risk of appearing really dense what are the specific things you can do with NTK that you can't do with native 4D?”. My answer is that JSON isn’t fully supported and I gave an example, so I’m not sure what the fuss is about.
It seems to me JSON could be natively supported and the new collection type appears to be getting 4D closer to native tools for JSON. This is a good thing, IMHO. I’ve been out of the 4D development game for a few years now but I still use 4D on a regular basis. I would love to see native JSON commands in 4D but I’ve rolled my own parser and key/value storage. This has worked quite well for me but if 4D provided native tools, I would switch to those in a heartbeat. Perhaps turning this around, might be more enlightening: How many people would be interested in downloading a JSON parser if I uploaded it to github? Rick Hazey Octet Industries, LLC --------------------------- r...@octethosting.net <mailto:r...@octethosting.net> --------------------------- WWKD? > On Aug 8, 2017, at 9:50 PM, David Adams via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech < > 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > >> it seems this view just keeps coming up... >> > > >> I am sorry if the documentation or marketing material or presentation or >> some other form of communication gave the wrong impression, but Object and >> Array Object are not "4D's way of supporting JSON". >> > > Thanks for saying this so clearly. This is the reality that is behind my > feature request(s) for a set of native tools to deal with arbitrary JSON > input/output. For now, I've got NTK but it is a feature set that any modern > tool should have out of the box. > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
