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Above works, the <json> & <xml> imports are pulled off this remotely hosted common library - https://github.com/r3n/renclib https://github.com/r3n/renclib You'

Above works, the <json> & <xml> imports are pulled off this remotely hosted common library - https://github.com/r3n/renclib https://github.com/r3n/renclib You'll need the Ren/C branch of Rebol 3 for this: * repo - https://github.com/metaeducation/ren-c https://github.com/metaeducation/ren-c * pre-built binaries - http://metaeducation.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html http://metaeducation.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

marvy 9y ago
Okay, as someone who doesn't know REBOL, what is the effect of miserlou/name if the server returns XML? The string value of a top-level <name> tag?
- draegtun 9y ago
  Ah this was a different XML module than I was thinking of because this is complete DOM parser!! But even so it does produce (by default) a flat representation of the XML. So, if for example, Github did return XML and it looked something like this (shown in Rebol console): >> x: load-xml {<root><name>Mr Miserlou</name><login>xxx</login></root>} == [ <root> [ <name> "Mr Miserlou" <login> "xxx" ] ] So to get top-level tags it's just: >> second x == [ <name> "Mr Miserlou" <login> "xxx" ] Now load-json also has a flat option so that a good way to unify things. Here's an updated example showing this: import <json> import <xml> load-*: function [site] [ p: open site content: read p http: query p close p data: parse http/headers/Content-Type [ "application/json" return (load-json/flat content) | "application/xml" return (second load-xml content) ] else [ fail "Content-Type not recognised" ] ;; next 2 lines just turns it into a hashmap so can do: miserlou/name ;; without it could have done: miserlou/<name> ;; for-skip data 2 [data/1: to-word to-string data/1] make map! lock data ] miserlou: load-* https://api.github.com/users/Miserlou print miserlou/name
  - marvy 9y ago
    Okay, that's quite good! I'm going to see how good this can get with the Python std lib later. Probably not quite this nice.
    - marvy 9y ago
      Actually, I think I was wrong. You can get something this nice in Python. It just requires a bit more glue code in the case of JSON, and a lot more glue code in the case of XML. All told, I figure Python might 10x more code than REBOL here. I'm not sure if it's fair to hold this against Python though. It's "just" a question of libraries. And it's only fair to hold libraries against a language if the library itself would be hard to write. Which in this case I think it wouldn't. Still neat though. Sometimes I wonder if I should learn REBOL (or Red?) or something.

marvy 9y ago

Okay, as someone who doesn't know REBOL, what is the effect of miserlou/name if the server returns XML? The string value of a top-level <name> tag?

draegtun 9y ago
Ah this was a different XML module than I was thinking of because this is complete DOM parser!! But even so it does produce (by default) a flat representation of the XML. So, if for example, Github did return XML and it looked something like this (shown in Rebol console): >> x: load-xml {<root><name>Mr Miserlou</name><login>xxx</login></root>} == [ <root> [ <name> "Mr Miserlou" <login> "xxx" ] ] So to get top-level tags it's just: >> second x == [ <name> "Mr Miserlou" <login> "xxx" ] Now load-json also has a flat option so that a good way to unify things. Here's an updated example showing this: import <json> import <xml> load-*: function [site] [ p: open site content: read p http: query p close p data: parse http/headers/Content-Type [ "application/json" return (load-json/flat content) | "application/xml" return (second load-xml content) ] else [ fail "Content-Type not recognised" ] ;; next 2 lines just turns it into a hashmap so can do: miserlou/name ;; without it could have done: miserlou/<name> ;; for-skip data 2 [data/1: to-word to-string data/1] make map! lock data ] miserlou: load-* https://api.github.com/users/Miserlou print miserlou/name
- marvy 9y ago
  Okay, that's quite good! I'm going to see how good this can get with the Python std lib later. Probably not quite this nice.
  - marvy 9y ago
    Actually, I think I was wrong. You can get something this nice in Python. It just requires a bit more glue code in the case of JSON, and a lot more glue code in the case of XML. All told, I figure Python might 10x more code than REBOL here. I'm not sure if it's fair to hold this against Python though. It's "just" a question of libraries. And it's only fair to hold libraries against a language if the library itself would be hard to write. Which in this case I think it wouldn't. Still neat though. Sometimes I wonder if I should learn REBOL (or Red?) or something.