Allow serializing DSF types to JSON about hjson-js HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for the input but this sounds like a problem of JSON, not Hjson. If JSON loses the type information we can hardly get it back by guessing it in Hjson.

I see that this would be a nice workaround for your issue but it has too many drawbacks to implement it here.

If you simply want a workaround you could just walk your object tree yourself and reuse DSF from Hjson to parse any string values:

// init
var runDsf = dsf.loadDsf(dsfDef, "parse");
// parse:
var dsfValue = runDsf(value);

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Thanks for looking this up.

I don't think that's a problem with JSON. JSON was designed as a portable and minimalist data-interchange format, i.e. to be simple and have few types. But this does not mean it cannot be augmented with type information, while still keeping JSON syntax. Providing both the decoder and the encoder agree on some way to decode/encode type information, it is possible. An example of a high profile project that does exactly this is transit-format.

The outcome is that Hjson could be serialized to and parsed from JSON without losing DSL type information. This would allow Hjson to use DSL in a similar way YAML uses tags.

If this still does not convince you, you can close this issue, I understand if you think this might not fit in Hjson. 😃

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I'm sorry but this not the purpose of Hjson. You are welcome to fork or reuse the DSF parts though.

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