Hey John, If you don't mind me asking, what's the higher level goal of this tool you're making? Are you interested in transforming JSON? Querying JSON?
If you're interested in queries, Freebase has a very nice graph query system (called MQL) where the user gives it a JSON structure as a query template, and the database does some graph traversal and returns a collection of JSON structures that match the template. I think it's a really nice system; you can see some examples here: http://www.freebase.com/query The basic idea is that your JSON query template has some key/values for it to match (eg: "artist": "The Police"), and whatever values are left blank (eg: "album": []) gets populated with results. It has the littany of standard database query features as well, like ordering and limits and ranges and whatnot: http://mql.freebaseapps.com Hope this helps! -- Chris On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:45 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Or numbers for pointers... > On Jul 21, 2013 3:43 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think what would be more difficult would be identifying what is >> persistent and what is runtime values. Also, JSON doesn't contain >> pointers, so one would have to use strings for pointers. >> On Jul 21, 2013 3:22 PM, "James McCartney" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I thought about this briefly. One issue is how to distinguish literal >>> strings from identifiers. >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, John Carlson <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hmm. I've been thinking about creating a macro language written in >>>> JSON that operates on JSON structures. Has someone done similar work? >>>> Should I just create a JavaScript AST in JSON? Or should I create an AST >>>> specifically for JSON manipulation? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> fonc mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --- james mccartney >>> _______________________________________________ >>> fonc mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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