Toml: Object references in TOML

Created on 5 Feb 2020 · 1Comment · Source: toml-lang/toml

Has any thought been given to including the JSON concept of a Reference into the TOML spec?

In my use case, would love to be able to treat TOML as a complete replacement of JSON, but that concept in JSON is important to maintain.

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James-Hudson3010

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That concept of Reference isn't actually a part of the core JSON spec (i.e. ECMA-404), but an add-on that can be expressed in JSON and interpreted by a parser that can do JSON References.

The TOML spec is like ECMA-404, in that it's all about the core language. References could be done similarly to how they're done in JSON, like so:

[external]
"$ref" = "http://some/where"

A TOML references spec, if one were made, wouldn't belong to the core TOML spec, though. It would be a complementary specification.

eksortso on 5 Feb 2020

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That concept of Reference isn't actually a part of the core JSON spec (i.e. ECMA-404), but an add-on that can be expressed in JSON and interpreted by a parser that can do JSON References.

The TOML spec is like ECMA-404, in that it's all about the core language. References could be done similarly to how they're done in JSON, like so: