Just when you thought you had this great new idea, it has been done already. For a long long time.
Soooo, I discovered JSON. That looks a lot like SSS. Yeah. I’m not a JSON expert (IANAJSONE?) but I can tell there are some differences between their format and ours. Pros and cons, like any decision.
Our pros are that it’s a very basic storage method. It’s JSON light. So if JSON is fat-free XML, SSS is fat- and carbohydrate-free JSON.
So, SSS is a project of me and Maurice, and we also have a SourceForge site up, almost. The name SSS was taken already, so we went with something slightly more controversial. We were surprised nobody took the name/acronym we came up with yet!
In unrelated news, I’ve watched The Matrix tonight since what, 6 years or so? And it rocked even harder then when I was 12. Tears of joy coming down from my eyes when Neo OWNS so hard in the entry hall of the building. Epic.
Posted by Nick on April 29th, 2009 @ 2:43 am | Tags: JSON, noes!, SSS
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The SSS STF (a cool new format for storing data with multiple levels but still > XML, more info here) parser is almost finished. I’m trying to simplify it up as we speak. C++ Templates sure can be frustrating! “/me twitches with his eyes.”
So the parser was working, but it didn’t utilize C++ all the way. I’m trying to reduce the code and thus ease further development and maintainability.
Some hours later…
It is finished! As far as I can tell anyway. It has a nice example app with it, here’s a (now already dated) sneak peek:
prettyprint("Welcome to the SSS example app");
cout
< < "This application shows how easy it is to use SSS.\n"
<< "STF is a \"new\" way to store leveled data, just as XML can do, for example.\n"
<< "The format looks like a C(++) struct, which we think is easier to read than XML.\n"
<< "Each :{ is a node, a node has other nodes and values. The first node is unnamed.\n"
<< endl;
So what are you waiting for? Grab the source with example app from the SourceForge page (either checkout from the SVN or select “Browse SVN” -> “Download GNU tarball” (all the way down) ), and use this neat alternative to XML! More information after the break.
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Posted by Nick on April 25th, 2009 @ 11:51 pm | Tags: !XML, C++, parser, SSS, Templates, w00t
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Title says it all.
Maurice and I were thinking of how to circumvent XML one more time, and Maurice came up with this format:
ideayaybox:{
author:"nick overdijk"
author:"maurice bos"
description:
"blabla
blabla"
link:{
file: "blah"
tag: "something"
tag:"something"
}
}
So, basically we have 2 types, values and lists (which can be seen as values). Values are between quotation marks, if you want a quotation mark inside a value, you need double quotation marks! A list starts with ‘{‘, and ends with ‘}’.
In the above example, ideayaybox consists of 2 authors, 1 description, and a list of links. Simple enough right?
Simple String Structures, taking over the world!
Posted by Nick on April 13th, 2009 @ 9:47 pm | Tags: SSS
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