Jira (PUP-3524) Switch from YAML and PSON to JSON

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: Switch from YAML and PSON to JSON One note that I also sent out on puppet dev. I would like us to add a Binary datatype upfront instead of doing the base64 encoding in the puppet code. Instead, it is the serialization formats responsibility to transform it into a form that can be transported. A JSON in text form can then do the base64 encoding. A MsgPack / JSON can instead use the binary directly. Even if our first cut of this always performs a base64 encoding the user logic does not have to change. Thus, instead of calling base64(content) and setting the encoding in the File resource, a Binary is created directly with a binary(encoding, content) function. BTW: MsgPack is essentially binary-JSON with compression. We can easily support a msgpack/json format in addition to text/json. Where the text/json for file content is either a String or Hash, where the hash is { encoding => base64encodedString } and the Msgpack is either String or a Hash with { encoding => MsgPackBinary } Without any other changes, the only place we support the Binary is in File's content so that serialization/deserialization needs to be special. When we have typed parameters, the serialization is instead driven by the type. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-3524 Switch from YAML and PSON to JSON I'd like to move us away from PSON and onto a standard format. YAML is out of the question because it is either slow and unsafe (all of the YAML vulnerabilities) or extremely slow and safe (safe_yaml). MessagePack might be nice. It is pretty well specified, has a fairly large number of libraries written for it, but it doesn't do much to help us solve the ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.