[uf-rest] Introducing JAHAH

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> How about taking JavaScript names?  Neutral enough.
>>
>> string, number, boolean, date.  data doesn't exist in JavaScript,  
>> but that's a damn good name for it because it's the appropriate  
>> URL scheme.
>
> Enough hypotheses, time for hard data.  I've gone ahead and created  
> a page under rest to collect examples:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes#Examples
>
> So far I have XML Schema, plists, C, JSON, and YAML.  Hopefully  
> others can add their favorites, and we can build a consensus...

JSON/JavaScript isn't correct.. object is not for data (it's a  
string:value map), boolean is the name of the boolean type (which has  
true and false instances) and in JavaScript there is a canonical  
datetime representation as Date (but doesn't have a lowercase type  
name, it's just an object).

XML-RPC types would probably be good to add also: string, double,  
int, boolean, base64, dateTime.iso8601

(too lazy to create a wiki login at the moment)

-bob