On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <e...@hueniverse.com> wrote: > I'll add something to the draft and we'll discuss it. There is enough > consensus on a single JSON response format.
Yesterday I got the following feedback: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Greg Robbins <grobb...@google.com> wrote: > Using JSON on the iPhone requires developers to drag in source code for a > third-party library. > > If their app isn't already relying on JSON for some other purpose, then > adding a third-party library is a somewhat substantial annoyance, > particularly for a mobile app where code size is important. > > If OAuth 2 is only intended for use with JSON APIs, then returning all > responses as JSON is reasonable. Otherwise, it's not so reasonable. A full > JSON parser is non-trivial, and seems like overkill for simple responses. > > The iPhone OS does have libxml2 and an event-style XML parser, but no really > easy way to extract data from XML, either. > > Form-style responses are much more straightforward to worth with given > simple string-manipulation utilities. If the above is true, then I am not so sure about JSON anymore. Lots of phones and devices will have problems with it. Marius _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
