how does webfinger represent numbers

[Melvin Carvalho]

I've seen two instances:

 "properties" : { "http://webfinger.example/mail/port" : "993" }

and

       "properties" :
       {
         "http://blgx.example.net/ns/version" : 1.3,
         "http://blgx.example.net/ns/ext" : null
       },

One is quoted and one isnt.  Do these correspond to he JSON types of number, string, boolean etc. ?

[Will Norris]

yeah, since the document is JSON, they would be the relevant JSON type.  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-16#section-4.4.3 defines property values as strings or null, so the JSON number would be invalid.

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[Melvin Carvalho]

On 29 July 2013 04:32, Will Norris <wi...@willnorris.com> wrote:

yeah, since the document is JSON, they would be the relevant JSON type.  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-16#section-4.4.3 defines property values as strings or null, so the JSON number would be invalid.

Thanks Will!

So I guess the "1.3" example in the spec should be quoted.

[Paul E. Jones]

The 1.3 (without quotes) is an error in the spec.  I’ve already fixed that in the next draft to be published.  These are always either strings or null.

 

Paul

 

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