Re: User Hypermedia format

hmm...

yes, it's implied, but not clear and possibly not right. in XML innerText
is "untyped" unless more info is provided (via the message or a schema). in
JSON it's easier to express type w/o metadata ("value":13},
{"value":false}, "value":"mike"}).

hmm....

what's the smart thing to do here (given i'd like to keep fidelity across
serilization formats as much as possible)?




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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Matt McClure <[email protected]>wrote:

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> Hi Mike,
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> Are the values of "value" properties always strings? It looks so in all
> the examples, but I don't see that explicitly stated.
>
> Matt
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> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:35 PM, mike amundsen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> /* pardon the cross-posting */
>>
>> I just published a first working draft of a new hypermedia format I am
>> (humbly) calling "Uber Hypermedia"[1]. I'm maintaining it in github[2]
>> where you can post issues, clone/PR, etc. if you like.
>>
>> It is designed to be *very* minimal. It has only three elements, 11
>> attributes, and seven reserved strings.
>>
>> Here is some text from the opening:
>> <snip>
>> The Uber message format is a minimal read/write hypermedia type designed
>> to support simple state transfers and ad-hoc hypermedia-based transitions.
>> This document describes both the XML and JSON variants of the format and
>> provides guidelines for supporting Uber messages over the HTTP protocol.
>>
>> The Uber message model has a number of design goals:
>> - Keep the message structure as lean as possible.
>> - Support all the H-Factors [HFactor] in hypermedia controls.
>> - Be compatible with multiple protocols (e.g. HTTP, CoAP, etc.)
>> - Maintain fidelity for more than one base message format (XML, JSON,
>> etc.)
>> </snip>
>>
>> I'm looking for any/all feedback here or in the repo space.  Thanks in
>> advance.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://rawgithub.com/mamund/media-types/master/uber-hypermedia.html
>> [2] https://github.com/mamund/media-types
>>  <https://github.com/mamund/media-types>
>>
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