[fpc-pascal] Challenge accepted

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019, Joost van der Sluis wrote:

> Op 10-08-19 om 18:37 schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
>> On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>> Op 2019-08-10 om 17:30 schreef Joost van der Sluis:
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>>>> And who else wanna help?
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>>> Why not simply port superobject?
>> 
>> 2 reasons:
>> 1. Interface based. Really bad idea.
>
> There can be a really good use for interfaces regarding streaming. Like 
> you saw earlier in the fppkg-repository code.

I think the only case when interfaces are truly needed is in IPC/RPC.
For the rest it just complicates otherwise simple things.

I will use them when useful, which I think is far less than commonly assumed.
As such I'm violently opposed to the 'you must always program an interface' attitude.

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>> 2. JSON only.
>
> 3. I didn't really know it.

You don't miss out on that. It's better than the mess Embarcadero produced,
but still needlessly complicated IMHO.

>
>> And if you need more reasons: the jsonrtti has just this. I still need 
>> to add some functionality to it from the restbase unit (dynamic
>> arrays) but other than that I've been using it since ages.
>
> I use jsonrtti now, and with some additions it works like I want. But 
> the goal is somewhat more generic, yes.

I understood that, I just compared it to superobject, not to your eventual
goal.

What additions are you talking about ? Can we incorporate it ? Improvements are always welcome.

Note that the SQLDB rest bridge has dataset result streaming in various formats.
It's somewhat similar to your goal, but is limited to datasets.

Michael.