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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: D-Bus Introspection: pure data structure representation
From:       Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo () geek-central ! gen ! nz>
Date:       2019-05-17 23:04:08
Message-ID: 20190518110408.705ee1b9 () theon ! geek-central ! gen ! nz
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On Fri, 17 May 2019 12:03:26 -0400, Felipe Gasper wrote:

> This would allow applications to interface with D-Bus
> without needing to load XML libraries, which seem to be in
> progressively less use nowadays as formats such as JSON have become
> predominant.

In my view, the kinds of apps that need to use introspection tend to be
written in high-level languages like Python, in which XML support is
commonplace, as is support for interconverting between XML and
language-specific type representations. So I don't see this as a biggie.

Lower-level languages like C/C++/Java/etc tend to be unwieldy in
dealing with dynamic typing anyway, so I don't see a switch from XML to
JSON as being helpful to them.
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