Re: [Openstack] [Swift] Use JSON in object xattr

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Barton
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Samuel Merritt wrote: Perhaps one of the original developers will chime in here. > All I can really say is that when that decision was made, there was no inkling that portability would ever be a concern. Pickle was fast and effective. Switching it to json should

Re: [Openstack] [Swift] Use JSON in object xattr

2013-04-06 Thread Samuel Merritt
On 4/6/13 11:13 AM, Victor Rodionov wrote: Hello, Now in Swift object server (swift.object.server.DiskFile) for serialization objects meta data used python cPickle module. So the question is why not use other portable serialization format for this, for example JSON? If you're asking why the i

[Openstack] [Swift] Use JSON in object xattr

2013-04-06 Thread Victor Rodionov
Hello, Now in Swift object server (swift.object.server.DiskFile) for serialization objects meta data used python cPickle module. So the question is why not use other portable serialization format for this, for example JSON? Thanks, Victor ___ Mai