>Hi all,
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>Just a short message to publicly say "thank you" to Marco Plaza for his nfJson Github-based contribution to VFP.
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>Thanks goodness there is JSON and Marco... Thanks Marco.
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>What we were trying to achieve: a significant set of scripting-based functionality to a good-ol' VFP heavy desktop application that has grown significantly in terms of functional cover.
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>I was more than a bit upset to tackle the challenge. VFP is no C#, no python nor java. Building a scripting engine is not easy especially when language design was not in my early academic background. We were not looking for a complex Turing-machine level scripting engine. Just a minimalist dedicated expression language. But that's still not really in VFP. On top of it, sure you certainly can regex with the basic MS-engine, it is not really part and parcel of the fox....
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>The first good news: JSON exists... Well the simple fact that a simple grammar such as this exists is goodness.
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>Icing on the cake, Marco Plaza has put a nice json library on github. Just need the parsing stuff. Great: the parsing a plain prg. Additional great news: it standalones with no external dependency. Just made a limite number of changes since we need it to be based on collection rather than the empty class. And voilà our oldish application does offer a much larger set of arbitrarily-named settings (text, numeric and js-array-based collections of numeric item and text strings).
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>My take on this: JSON has indeed a lot to offer. Because it's simple. Not instead of it:-)
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>Daniel

I agree, Marco's project is great and indispensable if you need to deal with JSON data :D

Regards!