I can haz jQuery?

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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hey!

Look what I found!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

wow

dusts furniture

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

heh I was just doing that.

it's old. old old old

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

14:26

that link breaks because of chatroom formatting

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

That hostname gives me a "name not resolved" error. Maybe it's only on your vpn?

Kit Z. Fox

Oh crap. Of course.

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

Right. That might make more sense.

But hey! Look at this room, right!?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

14:30

Yeah I forgot about this room.

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

It's all the same to me either way

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

Ah, and you want to make it smaller?

Kit Z. Fox

I'd like to just pull out Name values or something.

Can I do that?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

14:36

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

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

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

Oh! I made it work!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That's not a native feature of JSON.

Kit Z. Fox

OK. So I must have, ages ago, written some javascript that did that?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

14:40

That's the most direct way.

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Q: Is there a query language for JSON?

Is 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...

Kit Z. Fox

Seems likely. I think I did something with the bot.

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

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

Glad I could help

Kit Z. Fox

Now I'm reading the transcript and embarrassed that it is all me asking questions.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

14:52

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

Oh! I have lots of opinion about that!

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

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

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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