[HTCondor-devel] idle thoughts: json as classads

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If we flipped the meaning of '[]' and '{}' in ClassAds, and allowed colons as an assignment operator*, and maybe checked the different string escapes, would every JSON object automatically be a ClassAd?

It'd be kind of slick if ClassAds and JSON were a little more interoperable, and we could get some cool stuff somewhat for free. 

We could go a little farther, and work out a full syntax for ClassAds in JSON, maybe by looking at some of the JSON Referencing ideas:

http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/06/17/json-referencing-in-dojo/

This could all be first-steps towards easier interactions with HTCondor in other languages and environments. 

-Erik

*which I swore I thought Ye Olde ClassAds could do, but maybe it was just the config files