More JSON, less HSON?

[Wouter Hendriks]

I noticed WRD supports “<json>” nowadays, does that mean you guys are abandoning HSON a bit?

[Arnold Hendriks]

If a wrd field is only read and written by JS, there's no point in having to use hson (and defining all the empty array fields explicitly with a type, or risking an error about variant arrays)

But the real point of JSON fields are that you can connect them to TS definitions:

      <json tag="conditions" typedeclaration="mod::system/data/wrdschemas/config_types.ts#ManualCheckMessagesConditions" />

There won't be any runtime validation whether the stored data matches the type but the TS WRD APIs will pick up the type definitions