alt Hacker NewsSounds like we need an extended JSON with the express intent of conveying common extended values and rich objects: DateTime instants (with calendar system & timezone), Decimal, BigInt, etc.
Sounds like we need an extended JSON with the express intent of conveying common extended values and rich objects: DateTime instants (with calendar system & timezone), Decimal, BigInt, etc.
I disagree: this is not unlike including the schema in the JSON itself. This should be handled by the apps themselves, since they would have to know what the keys mean regardless.
If you do want the interchange format to be the one deserializing into specific runtime data structures, use YAML. YAML's tag syntax allows you to run arbitrary code inside YAML, which can be used for what you want.