You could make it JSON compliant by emitting a [ line at the beginning of
the stream and a false] line at the end (and adding a comma at the end of
each line).
The extra value at the end could be interpreted as a "more" indicator. If
true it means that this is only a stream fragment and that another fragment
is expected later. If false it means that the stream is really over.
With this you could use a content-type like "application/json;
layout=line-stream".
The only thing that would need to be standardized then would be the layout
parameter and its values.
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:47:36 PM UTC+2, Ken wrote:
>
> *There seem to be a growing number of tools & packages around that
> implement some form of JSON streaming where multiple standard JSON objects
> are delimited by extra newlines, e.g.
>
> *
> *{ "id": 1, "foo": "bar" }*
> *{ "id": 2, "foo": "baz" }*
> *...*
> **
> *
> This format seems both pragmatic and useful, but is not JSON compliant
> (i.e. doesn't parse with a standard JSON parser), so it seems inappropriate
> to serve up as "application/json".
> Request-JSONStream<https://github.com/smurthas/Request-JSONStream>uses
> "application/jsonstream", Google searching shows at least one use of
> "application/x-json-stream", and there are a number of services that use
> "application/json" and expect clients to just deal with it (cf.
> https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/issues/538).
>
> Since I'm about to make heavy use of this technique in a way that will be
> a little difficult to unwind later I'd like if at all possible get on board
> with whatever will become the standard (defacto or official). Anyone aware
> of any efforts underway to standardize this, or packages/services that have
> enough momentum to drive a standard in the future?
>
> *
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