[PD] Announcing CouchPdb development

Thomas Mayer thomas at residuum.org
Thu Sep 8 22:49:06 CEST 2011


Hello all,

On 03.09.2011 18:36, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>> I came up with lists: The example above outputs now on the left outlet
>> list id 1
>> list name my\ name
>> list year 2011
>
> Yes, that sounds like the appropriate thing to do with Pd.
>
>> After a JSON object is decoded, I output a bang on a second outlet, and
>> therefore can distinguish between two objects in short succession.
>
> Yes, either that or an 'end' message on the first inlet, but what you
> did is more usual.

Here is what I came up for arrays and nested objects:
If they come up inside an object, they are output as the symbol that 
they are. The JSON string can then be parsed by another instance of 
[json-decode] (or send it recursively to the same object).

Arrays as symbols themselves are parsed like several seperate objects. 
Here is an example:

Consider the JSON string
{"id": 1, "name": "Residuum","member": {"first-name": "Thomas", 
"last-name": "Mayer"}, "albums": [{"year": 2011, "name": "Der 
Diskokeller des Grauens"}, {"year": 2009, "name": "Schrei-Funk-Flaeche"}]}

When parsed with an instance of [json-decode] this will output
list id 1
list name Residuum
list member {"first-name": "Thomas", "last-name": "Mayer"}
list albums [{"year": 2011, "name": "Der Diskokeller des Grauens"}, 
{"year": 2009, "name": "Schrei-Funk-Flaeche"}]

followed by a bang on the second outlet.

When parsing the array for "albums", i.e.
[{"year": 2011, "name": "Der Diskokeller des Grauens"}, {"year": 2009, 
"name": "Schrei-Funk-Flaeche"}]

This will output:
list year 2011
list name Der\ Diskokeller\ des\ Grauens
			bang on second outlet
list year 2009
list name Schrei-Funk-Flaeche
			bang on second outlet

The current version is available at https://github.com/residuum/CouchPdb

Thanks for reading,
Thomas
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