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I guess my point is, in the face of "JSON library proliferation", it would be nice to have an "official" Typesafe one, and the one within the Play Framework seems to be a perfectly good fit for this (it's based on Jackson and is strongly typesafe).
To play devil's advocate for a minute: either the Play JSON library is better than the alternatives (in which case it's only really fair to extract it and share it with the wider Scala community), or Play has fallen victim to NIH and should really be using one of the competing libraries...
Cheers,AlexOn Sunday, January 20, 2013 5:38:54 AM UTC, Kim Stebel wrote:
It might not be exactly what you are looking for, but spray-json is quite similar to Play's approach and is already a separate library.
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alex Dean <al...@snowplowanalytics.com> wrote:
Hi,A bit of a random one this - it feels like Play 2.0 now has includes one of two best JSON libraries in Scala land (Jerkson is abandonware, which leaves the other interesting one being https://github.com/json4s/json4s). And so I wondered: are there any plans to extract Play's JSON library and make it a standalone Typesafe library - a little like https://github.com/typesafehub/config for configuration.No worries if not - but I hope the answer is yes, as I'm keen to use the library in non-Play projects (e.g. Scalding MapReduce jobs)...Thanks,Alex--
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for something like a JSON library, where it's a problem domain with a small surface area and well defined boundaries, I think diversity is in fact very healthy.
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