On 01.09.2014 17:06, Jeroen De Dauw wrote:
Hey,
We will hopefully soon switch to our new implementation of the
serialization code. I had a quick look and it seems to have the same
issue though. I filed a ticket for that here:
https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization/issues/77
Thanks.
This would be the right way to do this, but the problem is that in
php, an empty
map is indistinguishable from an empty list. So how do we tell the
json encoder
when to use what?
Cast the array to object.
Ok, we are trying to work around this somehow for now, but it's quite
tricky to do this in a typed programming language where maps and arrays
are completely different things. There are some great libraries that can
parse fixed format JSON into fixed class objects, which gives you very
clean code, but it only works well if the types of values are known ot
some extent. If this is not given, you start coding manual parse methods
again to add special cases. Since maps occur everywhere in the JSON, and
all of them could sometimes be empty, this affects a lot of code.
Markus
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