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OASIS Approves OData 4.0 Standards For an Open, Programmable Web

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-rules dept.

First time accepted submitter Dilettant writes "The OASIS members approved Version 4 of the OData standards, which now also feature the long requested compact JSON as primary format. OData helps "simplifying data sharing across disparate applications in enterprise, cloud, and mobile devices" through interfacing data sources via a REST like interface."

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  1. JSON Sucks by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look... I have to live with it in my work, okay? But it's anything but fun to work with.

    For computer-to-computer data interchange, JSON is not bad. But it's about as human-readable as the Voynich Manuscript.

    1. Re:JSON Sucks by pigiron · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You actually prefer XML???????

    2. Re:JSON Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Absolutely. XML is much more mature. XML has standardized schemas, validation, querying, transformation, a binary format and APIs for interoperability from any language. All JSON really has going for it is that it's already JavaScript.

      The funny thing is that, at the end of the day, JSON and XML are the same thing, only syntactically different. Yet the prevailing opinion seems to be that XML is absolute and total shit whereas JSON is some golden calf.

    3. Re:JSON Sucks by pigiron · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Really. Non of that totally unnecessary tag BS inherited from a printer definition spec (of all absurd things.) And key/value pairs are a hell of a lot easier to insert into a database in addition to being easier to read.