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But I think you're talking about components that only ever talk to each other (they won't be reused or replaced) so that arguably, the interface between them isn't a public interface - it's private to them.

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documenting the code at either end, I think that if the format is considered to be a 'public interface', then it should be documented, even if only as part of the code (and not the format in its own right). In your alternatives, of documenting the format vs. That's a public interface, and it's helpful to document it, just as it is helpful to document any application programming 'interface' (API). This includes components that can be reused elsewhere, or if you want to swap in a different implementation of the component. if you have to inspect the data (maybe why you chose a human-readable format), or if you ever need to use the data in some other way.Д«ut some interfaces are more public. There's an argument that interfaces should always be documented but you can often get away without doing so if you control both ends, as in the transient case you mention.

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The generator and receiving code are what need to be well documented, not the data itself. Don't like it? Don't use that approach, use something else. There's no right or wrong answer, it's a question of what your approach is going to be. It's very much the same sort of architectural choice people face when choosing ISAM or InnoDB engines. However, if you're a Java programmer who passes around XML all the time between beans, you're going to recoil in horror. Who cares if the data being passed between compenents is well documented, so long as the components themselves are? Bear in mind that JSON has it's roots in JS as well, which is loosely typed and uses prototypes instead of objects. As I mentioned, it's also a design choice. Not sure you're seeing my point: for information being communicated by JSON it's pointless to have it be self documenting as it's usually transient data generated on the fly. It's a question of whether the format definition is part of the data, or part of the interpreting/receiving code. is it just a matter of time before a schema language is needed? They remain simple (so far), and so don't need any of that support. They haven't grown big and ugly and complex they haven't yet evolved and experienced the constricting horror of maintaining back-compatibiliity. Or is it that applications using JSON are relatively new, and haven't yet accumulated the barnacles of old apps. Is it as simple as JSON being dynamically typed, and often used in dynamically typed languages (Python, Ruby, JavaScript itself), whose users don't want static typing, don't believe it's helpful, don't want the tooling support, and have other ways to achieve the needs that static typing meets (e.g. And yet, when proposed, JSON schema languages are reviled and rejected and actively opposed. This is especially important when formats evolve (e.g refactoring) or when the code that consumes it evolves.ДЄs JSON moves into more complex cases, the need for these will be felt. For these, it's helpful to have tooling support, type checking etc. They are deeply nested, with specific choices/alternatives/polymorphism at certain points with mandatory vs.

some formats are more complex, because the information and task are more complex. For these straightforward use-cases, extra tooling is a useless layer than just gets in the way.Д«ut. Now, these omissions keep JSON simpler, which is great for simple cases, where you don't need any of that, because it's obvious what the format is just from looking at it.

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This means no automatic documentation no automatic verification that messages are correct no tool support, no intellisense, no code generation, no mapping support. Because JSON has no schema language, it cannot formalize this format.

Whenever you are communicating something, you always have a format ( EDIT this format being a subset of JSON, specific to your app), whether it's explicit or implicit. Here's what I don't understand about JSON:

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