Re: making the backend's json parser work in frontend code

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 03:20:27PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Jan-23, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 01:05:50PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > > Another
> > > > problem, though, is how do you _flag_ file names as being
> > > > base64-encoded? Use another JSON field to specify that?
> > >
> > > Alvaro's proposed solution in the message to which you replied was to
> > > call the field either 'path' or 'path_base64' depending on whether
> > > base-64 escaping was used. That seems better to me than having a field
> > > called 'path' and a separate field called 'is_path_base64' or
> > > whatever.
> >
> > Hmm, so the JSON key name is the flag --- interesting.
>
> Yes, because if you use the same key name, you risk a dumb tool writing
> the file name as the encoded name. That's worse because it's harder to
> figure out that it's wrong.

Yes, good point. I think my one concern is that someone might specify
both keys in the JSON, which would be very odd.

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