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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
simplejson
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Brian Cameron
1.3 Date of This Document:
19 November, 2008
4. Technical Description
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
simplejson
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Brian Cameron
1.3. Date of This Document:
11/18/2008
1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project:
Solaris PAC
1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
LSARC
1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
Robert O'Dea
1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
Software - OPG
1.5. Email Aliases:
1.5.1. Responsible Manager:
leo.binchy at sun.com
1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:
brian.cameron at sun.com
1.5.3 Marketing Manager:
dan.robert at sun.com
1.5.4. Interest List:
desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
2. Project Summary
2.1. Project Description:
simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, and extensible JSON
encoder/decoder for Python 2.3+. simplejson is pure Python code with
no dependencies.
The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of
situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized
(somewhat like pickle).
The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding
(UTF-8 by default).
The simplejson module is used by Elisa for its plugin configuration
system, and also is used in the Deskbar applet for it's "Google Search"
feature to work.
4. Technical Description:
4.1. Details:
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange
format which is easy for humans to read and write, and for machines to
parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the "JavaScript
Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999".
JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses
conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of
languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and
many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange
language.
JSON is built on two structures:
* A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is
realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed
list, or associative array.
* An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an
array, vector, list, or sequence.
These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming
languages support them in one form or another. It makes sense that a
data format that is interchangable with programming languages also be
based on these structures.
For more information about JSON, refer to the JSON specification.
4.2. Interfaces:
Exported Interfaces Stability Comments
------------------- -------------- -----------------------
/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/simplejson*.egg-info
Uncommitted Python egg files
/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/simplejson
Uncommitted Python API
SUNWpython-simplejson Uncommitted Package name
Imported Interfaces Stability Comments
--------------- --------------- -----------------------
Python External PSARC/2005/532 Python
Evolving Migration from /usr/sfw
to /usr and upgrade to v2.4.x
4.3. Doc Impact:
None.
4.4. Packaging & Delivery:
SUNWpython-simplejson - the package for simplejson.
4.5. Dependencies:
None.
4.6. L10N Impact:
The Desktop team and the G11N are working together to evaluate and
provide I18N/L10N support.
4.7 Security Impact:
None.
5. Reference Documents:
simplejson community:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson
simplejson API docs:
http://simplejson.googlecode.com/svn/tags/simplejson-2.0.4/docs/index.html
JSON Specification:
http://www.json.org/
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
Desktop
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
