JSON / AJAX Serialization?

[David Koblas <ko...@extra.com>]

I've taken a look at the current JSON serializer and wondering if 
anybody has put together a proposal for a "AJAX" json serializer.

The issue I've got with the current JSON serializer is that when you 
would like to interop a structure with a webpage (and web designer) you 
end up having to repack the data into a human friendly form.  I've 
currently got a basic Thrift => AJAX JSON serializer working in python 
which enables me to take a structure that wasn't quite human readable to 
something that pretty much mirrors the original data format.

I'm not quite sure if it's worth making it totally portable for RPC, but 
at the same time it would enable a whole class of functionality quickly.

This is an example of some of the data response.

{
   "id":  "Brian_Kelly_(soccer)",
   "name":  "Brian Kelly",
   "stories":  [
     {
       "title":  "Brian Kelly takes ND job!  My only surprise is that he is NOT going to coach the Sugar Bowl for Cincinnati. Wow.",
       "url":  "#"
     },
     {
       "title":  "#Sports Newly hired Brian Kelly reports to work for Irish http://url4.eu/ugKW",
       "url":  "#"
     },
     {
       "title":  "Hope Brian Kelly is happy letting down all of his players before the biggest game of their lives. I hope you fail in South Bend",
       "url":  "#"
     },
     {
       "title":  "RT @SethDavisHoops: Cincy WR Mardy Gilyard is \"disgusted\" Brian Kelly \"went for the money.\" So if he could be a 1st rd NFL pick, he'd st ...",
       "url":  "#"
     }
   ],
   "lifestream":  [],
   "places":  [
     {
       "title":  "Wikipedia",
       "url":  "http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Brian_Kelly_(soccer)"
     }
   ],
   "news":  []
}