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Opening book format proposal - Computer content

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Monday, 31 January 2011, at 10:27 p.m.

In Response To: Opening book format proposal - Computer content (Frank Berger)

I understand everyone suggesting XML, XML wasn't my first choice either - it is overkill for what we are doing. I would NOT be against XML if it was a chosen, but I don't think its best for this task. I'm with Frank on this one JSON(2) is readable and writable by humans, simple to use, and there are libraries for almost every language these days. Most XML editors also support JSON.

The extensibility of the format is key. The binary format proposal is wrought with binary machine translation issues (Floating point representation, endian issues, string format differences, alignment issues etc) which is where most of my concerns last night existed, and requires special software to add/read to it.

The extensibility also offers the ability to add bot specific elements that may not apply to other bots. So you may have a fixed set of standard elements that all entries must have and any elements that may fully describe the settings for a particular bot.

As well the binary representation is very difficult to extend for size of types. What happens if a bot uses Big Numbers (>32 bits) for seeds etc.

Messages In This Thread

• Opening book format proposal - Computer content
  eXtreme Gammon -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 4:19 a.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 6:29 a.m.
    • Xg2 and this file format
      Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 7:10 a.m.
  • Looking at the future
    Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 6:55 a.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    KenB -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 12:49 p.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    Ian Shaw -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 3:00 p.m.
    • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
      Marty Storer -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 3:17 p.m.
      • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
        Tom Keith -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 5:45 p.m.
    • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
      Rich Munitz -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 9:18 p.m.
      • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
        Frank Berger -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 9:52 p.m.
        • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
          Rich Munitz -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 10:50 p.m.
          • obsolescence
            Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 12:50 a.m.
            • obsolescence
              Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 1:19 a.m.
              • obsolescence
                Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 1:59 a.m.
                • Did you know?
                  KenB -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 2:54 a.m.
            • obsolescence
              Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 10:09 p.m.
            • obsolescence
              Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 10:52 p.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    Frank Berger -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
    • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
      Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 10:27 p.m.
  • "Opening Book" format may be too specific
    Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 10:47 p.m.
  • Playing with tagged formats
    Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 4:28 p.m.
    • Playing with tagged formats
      Ian Shaw -- Wednesday, 2 February 2011, at 9:28 a.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    storm -- Friday, 4 February 2011, at 9:12 p.m.