Re: Noob's attempt at Lua

["Pierre Chapuis" <lua@...>]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022, at 23:05, siiky wrote:
>>    This might be quite involved, as I counted 45 JSON modules in LuaRocks
>> alone. Just looking at three of them:
>> (...)
>
> Maybe I didn't explain myself well. The exported procedures already 
> accept a per-request reader/writer that overrides the default 
> reader/writer. I was thinking that maybe it's worth making the /default/ 
> reader and writer an instance variable as well, instead of using 
> lunajson.  So I don't see why it would be significantly hard, and why 
> the number of different libraries and interfaces matters.  Of course the 
> user must provide a reader/writer that satisfies a certain interface 
> (e.g. the reader has to accept a string as input, and output whatever 
> structure they want).

That's a good approach, and one I follow as much as possible.

Regarding the JSON writer, be careful that the interface you define
must be a bit more than naive though, because it probably needs
to support some way to distinguish tables as arrays from tables as
maps.

-- 
Pierre Chapuis