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> OK, we found a protocol that behaves as you describe, and one that's
> not overly complex. So, what is Opossum used for, and how does it
> take advantage of this typing? Finally, if we wanted to add a weak
> type for "Date", could this also be encoded, or would it just have to
> be passed along as a string like most unknown fields?
BTW. Opossum is used as a configuration language for Gamora, another
project. Its used as the default text presentation for the Lightweight
Distributed Objects protocol (as opposed to LDO-Binary, which I mentioned
earlier).
Its acronym stands loosely for Object Pickler/ String and Stream
Marshaller.
One of the nice things it was good for was specifying complex arguments to
functions that knew only about Strings, for example:
java org.gamora.Foo "{ttl=30, host=casbah.org, port=3228, keys=[salt,sugar,
pepper, paprika]}"
The app would then run that through opossum and would have a preparsed
setup dictionary.
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