On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 13:44:04 UTC, Pierre Krafft wrote: > On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 13:16:48 UTC, BlackEdder wrote: >> On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 00:24:44 UTC, rlonstein wrote: >>> >>> Not quite the same, but I've been using dson >>> ( >>> >>> Have you looked it over? >>> Not quite the same, but I've been using dson https://github.com/w0rp/dson ).Have you looked it over? >> >> Did not know about that one. From looking through the source it seems to have a different goal though. dson looks like it is an alternative to std.json. Painlessjson is meant to make it easier to use json, by automatically (de)serializing objects/structs and converting them to (and from) json. >> >> For example: >> class Point >> { >> double x; >> double y; >> } >> >> void main() >> { >> auto pnt = new Point( 1,2 ); >> auto jsonPnt = toJSON( pnt ); // Returns a JSONValue( "{ "x": 1.0, "y": 2.0 }" ) >> auto nPnt = fromJSON!Point( jsonPnt ); >> assert( nPnt.x == pnt.x && nPnt.y == pnt.y ); >> } >> >> I guess it would be interesting to use dson instead of std.json as a basis for Painlessjson. On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 00:24:44 UTC, rlonstein wrote:Did not know about that one. From looking through the source it seems to have a different goal though. dson looks like it is an alternative to std.json. Painlessjson is meant to make it easier to use json, by automatically (de)serializing objects/structs and converting them to (and from) json.For example:class Pointdouble x;double y;void main()auto pnt = new Point( 1,2 );auto jsonPnt = toJSON( pnt ); // Returns a JSONValue( "{ "x": 1.0, "y": 2.0 }" )auto nPnt = fromJSON!Point( jsonPnt );assert( nPnt.x == pnt.x && nPnt.y == pnt.y );I guess it would be interesting to use dson instead of std.json as a basis for Painlessjson. > > I believe we should continue using std.json, and instead push for taking dson (or its lessons learned) into phobos if it's a better implementation. The best general solution should be the one that is available out of the box. On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 13:16:48 UTC, BlackEdder wrote:I believe we should continue using std.json, and instead push for taking dson (or its lessons learned) into phobos if it's a better implementation. The best general solution should be the one that is available out of the box.