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  • Subject: name that method!
  • From: Stig Brautaset <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:40:30 +0100

Dear all,

I'm currently writing a JSON framework (http://code.brautaset.org/ JSON/ )[0]. It contains a collection of categories adding JSON support to existing Cocoa classes.

I add a method to NSDictionary and NSArray to return an NSString instance containing their JSON representations, and therein lies my problem. What do I name this method? I initially went with - JSONString, but that is slightly ambiguous and can be confused with JSON's own string type. I'm leaning towards simply -JSON[1]. What do you think?

[0] yes, I'm aware there are a couple of existing projects floating around. Call it intellectual curiosity.
[1] I also considered -JSONText, as "JSON text" is the term used in the RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627) but this would seem to indicate that we're returning an NSText instance, which is not the case.


PS: sorry to bother you all with such banal questions but I find coming up with good names to be one of the hardest problems in software development.

Stig
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