Hi,
On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
>> Also, the json being outputted is invalid. (At least from what I
>> get on
>> Wikia, I don't know about trunk):
>> Doing an #ask format=json on yugioh.wikia's Dark Magician for ?
>> English
>> Name, ?ATK, and ?DEF gives me this.
>> {
>> properties: {
>> "english_name" : { valueType: "text" },
>> "atk" : { valueType: "number" },
>> "def" : { valueType: "number" }
>> },
>> items: [
>> {
>> label: "Dark Magician",
>> "english_name": "Dark Magician",
>> "atk": 2500,
>> "def": 2100,
>> "uri" : "http://yugioh.wikia.com/index.php?title=Dark
>> Magician"
>> }
>> ]
>> }
>>
>> In JSON ALL keys MUST be wrapped with DOUBLE quotes. the properties:
>> valueType: items: and label: listed there are all invalid because
>> they
>> are not wrapped in double quotes.
>> All valid JSON parsers will reject the json outputted by SMW.
>
> The JSON was engineered to be accepted by Exhibit, so this may be
> the reason
> for this peculiarity. I hope Fabian can comment on this. It might
> also be
> fixed: I recently updated the JSON export with some input that
> Fabian sent me.
Right, the output the JSON exporter currently delivers is formatted in
Exhibit JSON
(http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/Creating,_Importing,_and_Managing_Data
).
Indeed, Exhibit JSON holds some peculiarities that might cause
problems when it is processed by certain JSON parsers.
The quotation marks issue you noted is one of these peculiarities. To
be compliant with some tools that utilize Exhibit, the JSON exporter
refrains from wrapping special properties with quotation marks at the
moment.
I think this approach is going to be changed soon, once all these
tools get along with "real" JSON (it is just a matter of time).
>> Also, wouldn't it be a good idea to at least note that we're
>> modifying
>> the keys that the query asked for? Something like a "normalized": {
>> "English Name": "english_name", "ATK": "atk", "DEF", "def" }, at
>> the top.
I had a similar idea and I am going to take this into account for
future releases.
-Fabian
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