Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:23:06PM +0200, Filip Navara wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Vincent Hanquez<tab@snarc.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:22:07PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > >> You can code a minimal XML parser in straight C quite easily, if it's
> > >> a restricted subset.
> > >
> > > even the restricted subset is not as straighforward as a json parser. and
> > > usually using a subset means you can't interact correctly with the one that
> > > does the full spec.
> > >
> > >> XML and JSON both have the same ugly problem with binary data: they
> > >> can't carry it.  It's usually base64 encoded.  Then again the QEMU
> > >> monitor is no better this respect :-)
> > >
> > > JSon ***DOES*** do binary data.
> > >
> > > C String "abc\0\xff" -> Json String "abc\0000\00ff"
> 
> btw, sorry i meant \\ instead of \ in the json string.
> as in: 'a' 'b' 'c' '\\' '0' '0' '0' '0' '\\' '0' '0' 'f' 'f'

Wow.  So a JSON string is actually _larger_ than an array of numbers,
for some binary data?

As in:

    "abc\\0000\\00ff"

versus

    [97,98,99,0,255]

Heh :-)

-- Jamie