I agree and I believe that the way to accomplish this is to use Protocol Buffer schemas. Protocol Buffers and JSON have an extremely similar data model. The p

I agree and I believe that the way to accomplish this is to use Protocol Buffer schemas. Protocol Buffers and JSON have an extremely similar data model. The parts of them that people actually use are effectively identical. The actual differences are minor things like: - JSON can have arrays of arrays; with Protocol Buffers you need a message in between. - Protocol Buffers can represent binary data directly; with JSON you have to base64 encode it into a string. - Protocol Buffers are more specific about the size of integer types (int64 and int32 are different); this allows for more efficient in-memory representations but doesn't matter so much on-the-wire. I think the two are a match made in heaven.