ObjPack is a serialization format for objects. It is a superset of JSON, meant to extend functionality in order to allow some nicer features.

Warning: this thing is still very experimental and not fully implemented yet, (eg. serialization is missing) so it should be quite obvious that it is not ready to be used in production at all.

Please have a look, play with it, send feedback and try to pinpoint bugs by writing test cases :)

Ever wanted to put comments in JSON? Now you can!

{

# Database configuration goes here
'database': 'postgresql://user:pass@host/dbname',

# This is your email address
'email_from': 'foo@bar.baz',
'email_password': 'spam-eggs-spam'  # hide this!

}

Do you hate this kind of syntax, when using JSON as query DSL?

{"or": [
    {"cond1": "value1"},
    {"cond1": "whatever"}
]}

Now, it can be rewritten in a nicer way!

OR(
    {'cond1': 'value1'},
    {'cond1': 'whatever'})

You can have objects, like this:

MyObject('hello', 'world')

and, they support keyword arguments too!

MyObject('hello', 'world', example=1, another='blah')

you can also put kwargs in front, for example, to define some {xml,html}-like syntax!

Html(
	Head(
		Title("This is a title"),
		Link(rel='stylesheet', type='text/css', href='style.css')
	),
	Body(
		H1("The main headline"),
		Table(
			class="nice-table",
			Tr(Td("One"), Td("Two"), Td("Three")),
			Tr(Td("One2"), Td("Two2"), Td("Three2")),
			Tr(Td("One3"), Td("Two3"), Td("Three3"))
		)
	)
)

• Write the serialization part (+ tests)
• Make the Node interface more user-friendly (implement __getitem__ etc. to access children -- how to access attributes?)
• Finish structuring the syntax (eg. string escapes are missing)
• Write down some RFC about the syntax (how do you write a proper rfc?)
• Write nice documentation about the syntax (see above)
• Port to other languages too :)