Long sleepless night + hacking away Django app with Dojo = wrong group. :-) Sorry.
"Eugene Lazutkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, > > While AJAX is all about using Xml to transfer Asynchronously data to > Javascript, in many cases it's more beneficial to use JSON > (http://json.org) instead of XML, when transferring data from server to > AJAX application. Many implementations of JSON are available for different > languages. The easiest one is for JavaScript. > > If you have to "parse" JSON-encoded data in JavaScript, the simplest way > is to do it like this: > > var myVeryCoolObject = eval("(" + aJSONtext + ")"); > > It means, you cannot use dojo.io.bind({ mimetype: "text/javascript" }), > which does automatic evaluation of JavaScript because it would fail for > JSON. > > It would be really handy to have a shortcut for automatic "parsing" of > JSON and it is extremely easy to do so. Maybe some new MIME type should be > introduced to specify JSON type. As far as I know there is no official > JSON MIME type. So I propose to use "application/x-json" for now. > > Thanks, > > Eugene > > PS: Some security minded people use simple JSON parser written in > JavaScript to validate the input. I don't think it is a valid concern for > Dojo. Not after totally insecure "text/javascript" evaluation. And I like > it this way --- fast and simple. > > PPS: Please note that "text/javascript" and "text/ecmascript" are to > become officially obsolete. They are going to be replaced with > "application/javascript" and "application/ecmascript" respectively. Should > they be added as well? See details here: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoehrmann-script-types-03.txt > > >
