JSON alternatives to AtomPub

[Roy Jacobs]

I quite like AtomPub as a concept for storing events in a system and then subsequently providing them as a set of linked feeds. What I don't like is that it's XML based.

There are some JSON implementations of the same concept, like the one used in Event Store (application/vnd.eventstore.atom+json, example here: https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore/wiki/HTTP-Overview).

I was wondering if there is a canonical way to handle this and, if not, what kind of alternatives you have implemented or considered.

[Mike Kelly]

Hi Roy,

If you want something collection/item based then you'll probably be
interested in collection+json

There are other json based types that do linking but aren't based
around collections:

- Siren
- hal+json
- hyperjson
- JSON hyper schema

HTH

Cheers,
M

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[Mike Amundsen]

Collection+JSON was designed to be an Atom-like format with some added features (queries and write templates). You might want to check it out and see if it gives you ideas on how to solve your problem.

http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/

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[Roy Jacobs]

Thanks, guys. It is indeed exactly what I was looking for. It's a shame it doesn't come up when googling for "JSON AtomPub alternatives" and that kind of thing :)

[Steve Klabnik]

There is also the seemingly defunkt http://rssjs.org/ , which is more
comparing to ATOM than ATOMpub...