You should not experience this if you are using json_decode in php
(http://us3.php.net/json_decode).  Are you using a custom written
parser?

On Jun 26, 2:00 am, Arunachalam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank for your input. Iam currently using php JSON praser to decode the name
> value pair,
> The problem which im facing is that, the parser expect the name valuer pair
> in double quotes eg: "name":"value". But many of the pair in the feed are in
> the format of "favorited":false, in which case i was not able to fetch the
> value of the field.
> So i consider that, when there is a prefect ordering in the feed i will able
> to guess the next field, and parse accordingly.
>
> Cheers,
> Arunachalam
>
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>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:15 AM, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The JSON and XML markup formats do not define a fixed ordering of
> > their fields and they also allow new fields to be added at any time.
> > Besides consuming absurd amounts of CPU for name-value pair decoding,
> > this decoupling of producer and consumer is nearly the entire point of
> > these markup schemes. If you use a reasonable JSON parser, it will
> > mask all of these issues for you. If you try to pick the text apart
> > via other means, you will be continuously reworking as the status
> > format evolves and as the JSON encoder capriciously reorders its
> > output.
>
> > -John Kalucki
> > Services, Twitter. Inc.
>
> > On Jun 25, 10:13 pm, Arun <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I have few doubts regarding gardenhose feed.
> > > im redirecting the feed in json into flat file. also using php to
> > > decode the json format.
> > > When i went through few records, i was able to see that all records
> > > are not in same format i.e reply status message format differs from
> > > the other status format.
> > > ( few records starts with "created_at" field, while other records
> > > starts with "favorited"
> > > I want to know what are the various output record provided by
> > > gardenhose feed and their respective format and Where do i find the
> > > same.
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > Arunachalam

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