Re: Fedora Services API

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
>  On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:38:51AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>  [snip]
>  
> > 2) JSON data that is deeply nested sucks because objects are turned into 
> > dictionaries so you have to write things like:
> >
> >
> package['listings']['F-8']['people']['toshio']['acls']['commit']['status']
> >
> > to get the status of a person's acls on a package.
>  
>  When writing zmugfs I used simplejson.loads(rsp, object_hook=create_tree)
>  where create_tree is an object creation method.  The other option
>  is to change the depth of the object returned.
>   
This sounds interesting.  How do you tell which dictionaries can be 
turned into objects and which must remain dictionaries?  Or does your 
create_tree method have special knowledge of the data being returned?

-Toshio