Hi Matt,
On 23.02.2010, at 14:25, Matt Goodall wrote:
> 2. Implicit type conversion. Doc attribute values are now implicitly
> converted to some type of Futon's choosing. I'm guessing this is deliberate
> but, IMHO, it's just awful. It's easy to come up with contrived examples,
> e.g. try changing "1" to 1 or changing "[]" to "[100]", but I managed to end
> up with a {} getting stored as a string somehow (although I can't repeat it
> again) and it broke my application.
The motivation for this was to make editing text less painful. Not having to
escape quotes and line breaks means it's now actually possible to edit fields
containing longer strings without pulling your hair out.
The implementation is simple: Anything that doesn't parse as valid JSON is
automatically treated as a string. I'm not going to claim that that this
approach is perfect, and there are certainly cases where it's unexpected or
annoying.
Just saying that IMHO there is a pretty large benefit to this approach when
trying to edit text fields.
Cheers,
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Christopher Lenz
cmlenz at gmx.de
http://www.cmlenz.net/
