> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Mouawad [mailto:philippe.moua...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 7:54 AM
> To: dev@jmeter.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Ideas for 3.2
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Felix Schumacher <
> felix.schumac...@internetallee.de> wrote:
>
>>> Couldn't we start simply by trying to replace XML by JSON as an
>>> output/input format ? XStream has an implementation for this.
>>>
>> I JSON really that much more readable compared to XML?
>>
> JSON is more readable but the XStream one might not be, I can investigate
> this more

More readable?  Eeeeeeh, sorta.  It's certainly (a lot) lighter-weight to
parse and it's a decent bog-standard textual data format.  But readability
(for humans) can become awfully spotty when you start nesting data
structures.  If the XStream JSON output is as neurotic as the XML, it'll be
much, much worse.

Honestly, rather than simply abandoning XML, JMeter could do substantially
better just by using it as a proper format instead of a serialisation.

>>> We wouldn't drop XML yet.
>>>
>> We shouldn't.
>>
>I agree

Though it'll probably end up being painful to maintain, especially never
remove the ability to load it.  Keeping backward compatible reading is much
more important than forward compatible export.

Regards,
Wyatt

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