On 05.09.2012 12:48, Marco Fleckinger wrote:
>> This long form will be RIGHT in the future
>> {
>> "labels":{
>> "de":{"value":"Foo","language":"de"},
>> "en":{"value":"Bar","language":"en"}
>> }
>> }
>>
> do you really want redundant information?
It's not redundant information, it's a lookup index for convenient access. Just
like you would add indexes in a database.
>
>> And also this will be RIGHT
>> {
>> "labels":[
>> {"value":"Foo","language":"de"},
>> {"value":"Bar","language":"en"}
>> ]
>> }
>>
> Not easy browsable by using labels[lang] or labels.lang. Iterating through
> different labels is needed.
That'S why we are using the form with keys in the output. But we accept either
form as input (associative as well as list) - for the input, the important thin
is that the individual entries are complete and self-contained.
> so why not using:
>
> {
> labels:[
> de:{value:"Foo", source:whatever_de},
> en:{value:"Bar", source:whatever_en}
> ]
> }
>
> Here you can iterate through all items using their key and the value object:
>
> for (key in labels) {
> console.log(labels[key])
> }
Why wouldn't you be able to do just that with the form we suggest? In fact, in
your example, the log would be missing the language code.#
The idea behind the format we are proposing is to use self-contained entries
(records) for everything, and support named keys for convenience where possible.
-- daniel
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