Re: [Neo4j] Datetimes in Neo4j REST Server
Hum...maybe we should have the type of object in the json string?
data: {name : {string : Max}, age: {int :31} }
also how about arrays? string[] : [Max, Javier,Peter]
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Javier de la Rosa ver...@gmail.com wrote:
I was writting some extra tests for the python rest client and
checking what are the types allowed.
The boolean, strings, integers and floats seem to be OK when the
client receives the JSOn from the server. But if I serialize a date or
datetime, I have no way to know whether I must do a casting the data
to a datetime object or whether it's simply a string containing a
date. What should I do? Are the dates handled in a different way?
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Re: [Neo4j] Datetimes in Neo4j REST Server
Javier, Max, good point!
Jim, what do you say about that? How type safe can we make the REST
API? At least I think this warrants an issue over at
https://trac.neo4j.org/ticket/286 for this.
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Max De Marzi Jr. maxdema...@gmail.com wrote:
Hum...maybe we should have the type of object in the json string?
data: {name : {string : Max}, age: {int :31} }
also how about arrays? string[] : [Max, Javier,Peter]
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Javier de la Rosa ver...@gmail.com wrote:
I was writting some extra tests for the python rest client and
checking what are the types allowed.
The boolean, strings, integers and floats seem to be OK when the
client receives the JSOn from the server. But if I serialize a date or
datetime, I have no way to know whether I must do a casting the data
to a datetime object or whether it's simply a string containing a
date. What should I do? Are the dates handled in a different way?
--
Javier de la Rosa
http://versae.es
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Re: [Neo4j] Datetimes in Neo4j REST Server
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 16:05, Peter Neubauer peter.neuba...@neotechnology.com wrote: Jim, what do you say about that? How type safe can we make the REST API? At least I think this warrants an issue over at https://trac.neo4j.org/ticket/286 for this. Thank you Peter and Max for the quick response. It would be great to have well defined data types in the REST server. I hope the solution also works in order to talk to the server what types are sent to it, because now we have no way to create Date or List objects like properties in nodes or relationships trhough the REST API. It's not easy manage with Dates and objects in JSON. The proposal in https://trac.neo4j.org/ticket/286 adds some overhead although I think is a very good solution. However, there wouldn't be backwards compatibility. Best regards. -- Javier de la Rosa http://versae.es ___ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [Neo4j] Datetimes in Neo4j REST Server
Hi folks, My concern about this is that we're already taking liberties with the media type application/json. Adding this kind of annotation definitely takes us into very neo4j-specific territory (which might be a good thing). I responded to the ticket, saying that perhaps we should consider a neo4j media type. In that media type we could properly define a set of programmatic types that we support, as well as the hypermedia controls (links, forms) that we'd like to see. However what if we didn't use JSON? The Clojure community are thinking about introducing the notion of URI into the core language. Once that's implemented Ian Robinson, Savas Parastatidis and me along with Stu Halloway are going to design the (hyper)media type application/clojure (which will start life as application/x.clojure) Why is this important? Because Clojure already has a sophisticated type system and sending round Clojure data structures is just as easy as sending around JSON (though admittedly the acronym AJAC does not sound so sexy). Jim ___ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
