[squeak-dev] I'd like to contribute to the JSON project

Thiede, Christoph Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Wed Sep 30 10:14:45 UTC 2020


Hi Levente, Hi Chris,


> That's really weird because we even had a small discussion about it in this thread:
> http://forum.world.st/I-d-like-to-contribute-to-the-JSON-project-tp5121353p5121357.html

Of course, I'm just replying to this thread, but I did not realize before that you did not only optimize but also fix my code :)


> Email? I don't think so. RSS is probably the closest thing:

> https://squeaksource.com/feed.rss


<http://www.hpi.de/>
Ah! This looks promising! Can we have an RSS feed for every single repository? I cannot find the JSON repository in the linked feed.

> BUT, JSON is such crucial functionality these days, what do y'all think about integrating it into the base image?

+1! This would also save you some work when writing Metacello baselines where at the moment, you have to specify the dependency manually ...

> I guess we have some basic functionality on WebUtils... looks pretty compact, is there more to JSON than that?

Interesting, never heard of that before! JSON has some more features indeed, I guess. For example, it provides JsonObject, a subclass of Dictionary that implements dynamic forwarding to its property. I find this extremely handy when writing or prototyping REST applications because you can use these objects polymorphic with a custom class instance! Also, WebUtils do not support some special JSON constructs such as certain string escapes such as \f or UTF-16 char codes (see the start of this thread).

> Still, in the meantime, an admin of the project could add your email, Christoph.  Then, it's just a matter of whether or not squeaksource.com instance of SqueakSource is hooked up to a mail server, or not..

No need for special treatment :) It would be great to subscribe to emails for every single project, but how expensive would that be? RSS sounds easier to me (as it's already implemented in some way), there are external services that can email you about RSS news. Where are the sources for it, is it SqueakSource, SqueakSource 2, or SqueakSource 3?

Best,
Christoph
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I forgot about this fork you did Levente, I should probably switch!  BUT, JSON is such crucial functionality these days, what do y'all think about integrating it into the base image?  I guess we have some basic functionality on WebUtils... looks pretty compact, is there more to JSON than that?

Email? I don't think so. RSS is probably the closest thing:
https://squeaksource.com/feed.rss


Actually, squeaksource does support email notifications (it's how we're getting trunk commit notifications), but only the admin can add/remove them -- I assume because it was intended for publishing to mailing lists, so we should find a way to improve that.  Still, in the meantime, an admin of the project could add your email, Christoph.  Then, it's just a matter of whether or not squeaksource.com<http://squeaksource.com> instance of SqueakSource is hooked up to a mail server, or not..
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