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Meanwhile, in F#... type People = JsonProvider<"http://someurl.com/people.json"> let people = People.GetSamples() And, it's statically typed with inte

• shanemhansen 12y ago
  That is both awesome and slightly scary. This type can literally by MITMd. Maybe we'll see a big push for https-everywhere in F# code? It is pretty awesome that languages exist that let you do this.
  • Matthias247 12y ago
    As far as I understand the type providers evaluate the samples at compile time. This means that you have at that point of a time a correct version of the data samples. If at compile time everything is ok there is no security or corruption issue for the runtime. I also think it won't be a good idea to just pull in arbitrary code (or resources) through http(s) during compilation. I think what you really should do is download the files, review them, add them as resources to your project and use those as input for the type providers.
    • gagege 12y ago
      For sure. It's fun to mess around with type providers over https, but not in production. The whole point is to have a (relatively) stable schema.