On Wed 25 Apr 2007, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote:
Your recent change to using templates for the output theoretically makes it very easy for us to implement.
We don't even need templates for JSON output; there's a Perl module (called JSON, unsurprisingly) that turns a Perl object directly into JSON.
Some examples of our output in different formats using Dave Beckett's excellent "triplr" triple-converter:
http://triplr.org/json;pretty/http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=Roya...
Hm, that's not really what I meant by JSON output. That's RDF output wearing different clothes. What I was thinking of was something along these lines:
{ "name" : "Red Lion and Sun, N6 4BE", "uri" : "http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?id=Red_Lion_And_Sun,_N6_4BE;format=..." "wgs84_lat" : 51.572545, "wgs84_long" : -0.148517, "locales" : [ "Highgate", "N6" ], "categories" : [ "Pubs", "Pub Food", "Beer Gardens" ], }
Something that can trivially be turned back into an object without the need to parse RDF and work out what all the triples represent.
Or even:
{ "name" : "Red Lion and Sun, N6 4BE", "uri" : "http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?id=Red_Lion_And_Sun,_N6_4BE;format=..." "wgs84_lat" : 51.572545, "wgs84_long" : -0.148517, "locales" : [ "Highgate", "N6" ], "categories" : [ "Pubs", "Pub Food", "Beer Gardens" ], "nearby" : [ { "distance" : 153, "uri" : "http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?id=Wrestlers,_N6_4AA;format=json" }, { "distance" : 311, "uri" : "http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?id=Flask,_N6_6BU;format=json" }, { "distance" : 589, "uri" : "http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?id=Highgate_Station;format=json" } ] }
Kake