Comments on: JSON Diff Released

By: MichaelSchoeler

MichaelSchoeler — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:49:11 +0000

I made a JSON diff algorithm some time back. I argue for its uses in the short article I wrote about it.

My diff algorithm even handles cyclic references in the JSON objects (deep objects).

See http://michael.hinnerup.net/blog/2008/01/15/diffing_json_objects/

By: tlrobinson

tlrobinson — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:41:02 +0000

keitha: Yeah its recursive so it will die on really deep JSON structures. Was the JSON you tried really big? I could rewrite it to not be recursive, but I don’t think most people will run into the limit.

AndreasBarthazi: I wrote it because I was sick of manually looking through strings of JSON for the differences. I needed it, I thought others might too.

By: AndrasBarthazi

AndrasBarthazi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:33:51 +0000

I like the idea, but what is it practically good for?

By: keitha

keitha — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:10:34 +0000

FF2

too much recursion
typeofReal(”v”)jsondiff (line 127)
compareTree(”v”, null, “0″, li)jsondiff (line 53)
compareTree(”v”, null, “0″, li)jsondiff (line 113)
compareTree(”v”, null, “0″, li)jsondiff (line 113)
compareTree(”v”, null, “0″, li)

By: richtaur

richtaur — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:43:16 +0000

Not sure why it restricts itself to just JSON, but very handy! Thanks.