[Openstack] Just JSON, and extensibility

Caitlin Bestler Caitlin.Bestler at nexenta.com
Fri Apr 13 18:53:01 UTC 2012


The argument that XML has better extensibility than JSON isn't very convincing to my ears.

I'm an old war horse, and recall extending message formats in ANSI C so as to maintain backwards
compatibility with existing clients (by versioning the struct name itself and always keeping the same
fields up front).

If this problem could be solved in ANSI C, the solutions available to Python with JSON can only be better.





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