[Ronny] >> since json-rpc and xml-rpc basically do the same >> and the only difference is the content-type (json is more concise), >> i propose to create a single xml/json-rpc module.
[Graham] > The problem with the JSON-RPC 1.0 specification was that it wasn't > always as clear as could have been. > > Unfortunately the JSON-RPC 1.1 draft specification didn't necessarily > make things better. > The JSON-RPC 1.1 > specification was also never really completed and left out details > such as standard error codes etc that there were proposing be > specified. All valid concerns. I think that the JSON-RPC initiative lost its way a little. They tried to model things such as encoding and decoding an object graph, using object references, etc, which IMHO is a step too far for the usages JSON-RPC would get, and is more CORBA than XML-RPC. The maintainer of the JSON-RPC.org site was looking for someone to take it over for a while; I think someone might have taken it over last year. [Graham] > Are you > prepared to go and test it with a sufficient range of clients to make > sure Python implemented server side interops properly? Interestingly, the reference implementation for JSON-RPC is a server written in python[1]. http://json-rpc.org/wiki/python-json-rpc Perhaps python's best interests in this case are better served by letting that reference implementation drive the JSON-RPC standards process[2]? If that is the case, then it is counter-productive to add a competing module to the python standard library. Regards, Alan. [1] But it's a shame they didn't write it on WSGI: then their services could have run on the Google compute cloud ;-) [2] Perhaps some pythonista from Web-SIG is most appropriate to advise how JSON-RPC should move forward? After all, we're more accustomed to server-side stuff than those javascript folks ;-) _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
