On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jorge.vargas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Today while working on the updated dependencies ticket I found out something. > > Currently we are using the buffet legacy plugin for json, you may know > it as TurboJson, > > TurboJson, was ones used by TW/TGWidgets and other parts of TG1 to > apply generic rules to transform into json some objects, as you can > see from > http://trac.turbogears.org/browser/projects/TurboJson/trunk/turbojson/jsonify.py > it used to support SO, SA and other small types in a very magical yet > useful way. Also note TJ uses simplejson as it's rendering engine. > > Fast forward to the present, if you want to return json you will most > likely use a dict, and TJ will just kick in and transform your custom > classes into valid json. > > So the questions are, > > 1- should we create a "render_json" function in tg.render.py (read: > build a "new style render") > if yes what it should do, > a- simply delegate to simplejson > b- implement the generic functions to display custom types?
another benefit of going with 1 is that we can get rid of a lot of dependencies, according to pip Downloading/unpacking PEAK-Rules>=0.5a1.dev-r2555 (from TurboJson->TurboGears2) Downloading/unpacking prioritized-methods>=0.2 (from TurboJson->TurboGears2) Downloading/unpacking BytecodeAssembler>=0.3.dev-r2459 (from PEAK-Rules>=0.5a1.dev-r2555->TurboJson->TurboGears2) Downloading/unpacking DecoratorTools>=1.7dev-r2450 (from PEAK-Rules>=0.5a1.dev-r2555->TurboJson->TurboGears2) Downloading/unpacking AddOns>=0.6 (from PEAK-Rules>=0.5a1.dev-r2555->TurboJson->TurboGears2) Downloading/unpacking Extremes>=1.1 (from PEAK-Rules>=0.5a1.dev-r2555->TurboJson->TurboGears2) Downloading/unpacking SymbolType>=1.0 (from BytecodeAssembler>=0.3.dev-r2459->PEAK-Rules>=0.5a1.dev- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
