I have not yet found a good and stable library for JSON parsing in c#,
should you know some let me know :)
However, I disagree with "I feel like such a project would take an
insane amount of resources to develop." If we wouldn't make it
insanely complicated, it won't take insane amount of time ;). The
cache daemon could be memcached which is already written and stable.
Listener is a simple daemon that just listen in UDP, parse the data
from mediawiki and store them in memcached in some universal format,
and dispatcher is just process that takes the data from cache, convert
them to specified format and send them to client.
Sounds easy ;)
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Petr Bena
<benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem is that while XML is widely accepted
standard supported on
all platforms and languages, JSON, even if it might be better, is not
so well supported in this moment. For this reason I think it would be
cool to be able to offer multiple outputs.
JSON is *very* widely supported in almost every language. It would
definitely not be a problem if we only supported JSON. Furthermore, JSON
represents data using only native types, all of which are existent in PHP.
In other words, a PHP/C++/etc. variable can be directly serialized into
JSON, whereas in XML this is very much not the case due to attributes and
the ability to have child elements of different types, making it much more
difficult to implement.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
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