1. A JSON "object" corresponds to some kind of
dictionary in Smalltalk.
2. {#a -> 1. #b -> 2} is NOT A DICTIONARY.
It is an Array of Associations.
3. {#a -> 1. #b -> 2} asDictionary
*is* a dictionary.
4. My Smalltalk allows #{#a -> 1. #b -> 2}
-- how could I let it be less expressive than
-- the language named for a snake?
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 02:57, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> As I merrily chat to myself - I noticed that STONWriter almost does what I
> need - it just complains in #writeAssociation: so I make a subclass
> STONJSONWriter and override:
>
> writeAssociation: association
> “don’t smack me….
> jsonMode
> ifTrue: [ self error: 'wrong object class for JSON mode'
> ]."
> self
> encodeKey: association key
> value: association value
>
> I get exactly what I would expect - valid Json from simple Collections,
> Associations and Array.
>
> So would it be handy to have such a writer in the image (or let STONWriter
> be more configurable for this?)
>
> Tim
>
> p.s. my finally example would then be:
>
> ex := { 'track'-> 'pharo'.
> 'language' -> 'smalltalk'.
> 'exercises' ->
> {'slug' -> 'hello'.
> 'id' -> 55.
> 'topics' -> #('a' 'b' 'c') }
> }.
>
> String streamContents: [ :stream |
> (STONJSONWriter on: (stream))
> jsonMode: true;
> prettyPrint: true;
> writeList: ex ].
>
> > On 28 Feb 2019, at 13:45, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> >
> > Just to add more flavour to this - it seems quite wordy that we have to
> do this (or equivalent) to write some config.
> >
> > ex := OrderedDictionary new
> > at: 'track' put: 'pharo';
> > at: 'language' put: 'smalltalk';
> > at: 'exercises' put: (
> > OrderedDictionary new
> > at: 'slug' put: 'hello';
> > at: 'id' put: 55;
> > at: 'topics' put: #('a' 'b' 'c');
> > yourself );
> > yourself.
> >
> > String streamContents: [ :stream |
> > (NeoJSONWriter on: (stream)) prettyPrint: true;
> > mapInstVarsFor: Association;
> > nextPut: ex ].
> >
> > So I’m still wondering the NeoJSONObjectMapping can do something easy
> for Association other than simply mapInstVars?
> >
> >
> >> On 28 Feb 2019, at 13:36, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Sven - is there no convenience shortcut we can use in our code to
> make this less wordy when we are specifying it?
> >>
> >> E.g. the following is very convenient to write - but doesn’t work (as
> you have $‘ and not $“ )
> >>
> >> ex := { 'track'-> 'pharo'.
> >> 'language' -> 'smalltalk'.
> >> 'exercises' ->
> >> {'slug' -> 'hello'.
> >> 'id' -> 55.
> >> 'topics' -> #('a' 'b' 'c') }
> >> }.
> >>
> >> String streamContents: [ :stream |
> >> (STONWriter on: (stream)) prettyPrint: true; writeList: ex ].
> >>
> >> I had thought maybe NeoJSON might help and put:
> >>
> >> String streamContents: [ :stream |
> >> (NeoJSONWriter on: (stream)) prettyPrint: true;
> >> "mapInstVarsFor: Association;"
> >> nextPut: ex ].
> >>
> >> But I get the error about missing an association mapping. If I
> uncomment that bit - I get things like: { "value" : “pharo" },
> >>
> >> So is there a way I can write a simple mapper for Association that will
> write out the key in a string and the value in a string?
> >>
> >> I’m quite suprised we can’t easily write out fragments of Json in our
> code in a light weight way? Or do I need to make a proper Config object and
> then teach it how to map properly such that rather than fiddling with our {
> x->y } dictionary sugar I do something like:
> >>
> >> Config new at: ‘id’ is: 123; at: ‘name’ is: ‘Tim’; at: ‘exercises’ is:
> #(1 2 3).
> >>
> >> And I guess at:is: can do the Association asDictionary thing?
> >>
> >> But I thought Neo might give me something like that, as it must be
> terribly common?
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >>> On 28 Feb 2019, at 13:16, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> STONJSON toString: { #id->1. #name->'tim' } asDictionary.
> >>>
> >>> JSON cannot deal with Associations by themselves.
> >>>
> >>>> On 28 Feb 2019, at 14:05, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I am stumped about how to write out some simple json (for a config
> file). I didn't think I need Neo, and STONJSON would be fine but it seems
> like creating items like:
> >>>>
> >>>> { 'id'-> self id. 'name' -> self name }
> >>>>
> >>>> gives an error about the association. I think you have to do: {
> ('id'-> self id) asDictionary. ('name' -> self name) asDictionary }
> everywhere….
> >>>>
> >>>> But when I switch over to NeoJsonWriter it also complains about
> Assocations too. I just want a simple output like:
> >>>> { "id" : 12, "name" : "tim” }
> >>>>
> >>>> I thought it was simple to do this? Am I missing something obvious.
> >>>>
> >>>> Tim
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
