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2:23 PM
Kit Z. Fox has unfrozen this room.
 
Kit Z. Fox
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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hey!
Look what I found!
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
wow
dusts furniture
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
It's a bit old, but it will do.
tries really hard not to read the transcript
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
heh I was just doing that.
it's old. old old old
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
First, naturally, this is work-related so keep it on the DL. I know you know that.
I can't share the link because it's accessible only on our internal network.
I need to figure out if it's sending research area names in a way that is useful.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:26 PM
that link breaks because of chatroom formatting
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
thanks
I'm having trouble reading the results of the query.
And I can't remember if I can narrow it, or if I have to live with that?
I mean, for viewing purposes.
I feel like there was a tool that I could use to manipulate the data from the call.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
That hostname gives me a "name not resolved" error. Maybe it's only on your vpn?
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Oh crap. Of course.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Also if you want to take this to a hangout conversation to make it more private, feel free
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Right. That might make more sense.
But hey! Look at this room, right!?
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:30 PM
Yeah I forgot about this room.
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
I should probably delete it. But then Matt and I can still see it, so that just excludes you. And everyone else.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
It's all the same to me either way
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Let's chat in here for old times' sake. If it's too much, we can move it.
Um, OK. So I get a rather large object.
Not huge, but it's difficult to scan.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Ah, and you want to make it smaller?
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
I'd like to just pull out Name values or something.
Can I do that?
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:36 PM
well, JSON is just a data format, like XML. It happens to be a subset of Javascript, so it works well for using the objects in JS environments.
But to use the JSON object you need an environment that understands JSON.
and to transmit it you need to understand the transmission.
I couldn't see how that query responded but I'm guessing it sends the JSON as the body and the content-type is "application/json".
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
I had some kind of thing with a rocketship icon that I used before, I think.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes, I think so.
Oh. Postman. Found it.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Now, given an arbitrary JSON object, one could have a query language that lets you walk the tree or find nodes that match certain properties.
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Oh! I made it work!
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
That's not a native feature of JSON.
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
OK. So I must have, ages ago, written some javascript that did that?
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:40 PM
That's the most direct way.
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Q: Is there a query language for JSON?

allclawsIs there a (roughly) SQL or XQuery-like language for querying JSON? I'm thinking of very small datasets that map nicely to JSON where it would be nice to easily answer queries such as "what are all the values of X where Y > 3" or to do the usual SUM / COUNT type operations. As completely made-u...

json nosql web-standards querying dynamic-queries
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Seems likely. I think I did something with the bot.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
That Q lists some examples of json query languages
oh, it's from 2009, so kinda old.
maybe some of those languages are finished and working now.
I'm not sure it's worth the effort for a bit of debugging.
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Well, that question had an answer that reminded me that it can be dumped into Mongo.
And since that's where it's going to end up in this iteration...
And Postman formats it well enough that I can read it.
So. Cool. I think this will do for now.
Thanks!
It's like old times.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Glad I could help
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Now I'm reading the transcript and embarrassed that it is all me asking questions.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:52 PM
Well, this IS the coding room
Oh btw I was inspired by your mentioning that your son saved up some money for a big Lego set to start giving my kids an allowance.
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
Oh! I have lots of opinion about that!
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
I brought them together and said "We're going to do a lesson. It will take years. It's called 'The value of money'"
 
Kit Z. Fox
Kit Z. Fox
:D
I wish I could find the article for you.
I'm going to switch back over to the main chat and talk to you about it, OK?
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
I said it'd be a dollar a week and gave them each a dollar. Then I tried to explain how saving works. It was a saturday, so predictably, both kids came (separately) to me the next day and said "it's a new week, where's our next dollar?"
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