JSON Graph (JSONG)

Netflix Reactive REST @ InfoQ

To avoid duplication of data and use HTTP more efficiently,
using ID's for data in JSON : JSON Graph (JSONG)
Very interesting!

JSON

{
videoLists: {
“0”: {
  “name”: “Thrillers”,
  “0”: {
    id: 2654,
    name: “Die hard”,
    rating: 4.0
  }, 
// more titles
  length: 74,
},
“1”: {
  “name”: “Action Movies”,
  “0”: {
     id: 2654, // duplication!
     name: “Die hard”,
     rating: 4.0
  }, 
// more titles
  length: 74
}, // more lists…
length: 25
}
} 

JSONG

{
videoLists: {
“0”: {
  “name”: “Thrillers”,
  “0”: [“videos”, 2654],  // effectively a link in a graph!
  // more titles
  length: 74,
},
“1”: {
  “name”: “Action Movies”,
  “0”: [“videos”, 2654], 
  // more titles
length: 74
}, // more lists…
length: 25
},
videos: {
  2654: { // avoid duplication
    name: “Die hard”,
    rating: 4.0 
  }
}
} 

Hierarchical API: JSONG Path [videoLists’][0][0][‘name’]
[“videoLists”,0,0,”name”]
array must be a path
[“videos”, 2654]