On Aug 22, 2008, at 00:58, Noah Slater wrote:
Pretty-printing OTOH... I don't think it's worth it.
+1
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:29:46AM +0200, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
So this should be done on the client, in my opinion. Nothing stops
us from shipping a newlineadding and prettyprinting CouchDB client,
but i don't think that should be in the server.
-1
Pretty printing can be separate, but we really should be appending a
newline to
JSON responses. If nothing else it makes the output files POSIXly
correct.
If anything, we should be talking HTTP by the spec. RFC 2616 nowhere
states
that the the message or the body part of a request should end in a
newline. Adding
a newline would effectively alter content which in turn potentially
breaks clients.
We could try and guess if a "human user-agent" is making the request
but I
doubt that we can make that reliable.
We could further add a ?make_json_pretty=true parameter but I think that
defeats the purpose.
Cheers
Jan
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