JSON

[lucblender 0]

There is xml  but the poor JSON is left alone out of simulton.... Would be a good adition, especially if combined to web technologie (RESTful api, websocket) to automatically process their outputs!

[Joel Bodenmann 4]

True - that's something that is definitely in the pipeline.

I think we'll have to add a new data type for this that can naively represent a JSON object and convert it to and from string.\

 

What kind of blocks would you expect to have as an MVP?

[lucblender 0]

I'm mostly thinking of a block that can input a string and convert it as a JSON object. Also maybe a block that can create a JSON Object from a dynamic number of input?

 

Then when we have JSON object, having blocks that can manipulate it: 

• retreiving data from key
• modifying data from key
• saving the JSON object into file

 

 

[Joel Bodenmann 4]

We started working on this. So far we have the following blocks:

• From String: Create a JSON object from a string
• To String: Dump a JSON object into a string
• From File: Load a JSON object from a file
• Find: Perform key look-up
• Count: Count number of occurrences of a particular key
• To Map: Convert to a map data structure
• To Array: Convert to an array data structure

 

Now we're gonna add the necessary block(s) to modify/write/insert values into a JSON object.

And if everything goes well we have a first public version of this by the end of the week ?