Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: ANN: QEMU Monitor Protocol git tree

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>]

On 09/23/2009 08:36 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> The main advantage of not relying on whitespace terminated messages is
>> that it gives us the ability to pretty print the protocol on the wire.
>> For instance, I'd rather read:
>>
>> { "execute": "info",
>>    "id" : "32",
>>    "arguments": ["cpus"]}
>
> I agree.  It's not even expensive.
>
> It's still useful for parsers to easily find the end before parsing.
>
> So declare the JSON terminator to be "}\n" or "}\r\n".  That shouldn't
> occur anywhere inside a pretty printed structure.  The internal
> closing braces are all followed by a comma.

To be picky, you could have dictionaries pretty printed as

   ...
   'key': {
     'key': {
       'key': {}
     }
   }
}

I think it's either no-delimiter or "\n" or "\r\n".

Paolo