Re: name that method!
Re: name that method!
- Subject: Re: name that method!
- From: "Eloy Duran" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:58:46 +0200
How about toJSON or something like that?
Cheers,
Eloy
On 9/28/07, Stig Brautaset <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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