[Haskell-cafe] Simple GUI library to view JSON?

[Clark Gaebel]

Not that I've tried it, but I doubt you need to save objects to disk to
serve them with Yesod. Just serialize them to JSON in memory and serve that.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, dokondr <dokondr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, it is a good idea to use JSONView. Yet I also want to reuse this
> code to view lists of objects in MongoDB collection. MongoDB objects are in
> fact JSON, so the same code should work. I am not sure though that saving
> MongoDB objects in intermediate JSON and then displaying them in JSONView
> would be the best way to go.
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Clark Gaebel <
> cgaebel at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>> You could set up a simple web server (with, for example, Yesod [1])
>> serving up your JSON data, and then just connect to it with Firefox and use
>> JSONView.
>>
>> [1] http://www.yesodweb.com/
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:01 PM, dokondr <dokondr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please advise on a simple GUI library to display JSON data. A library
>>> that is easy to build both on Win, Linux and OsX. I need a scrollable view
>>> to show a list of JSON objects. Every object may contain other objects
>>> (recursively). List may have thousands of objects. Fields may have very
>>> long text values, so the view must also be scrollable in horizontal
>>> dimension.
>>> JSON object view should be click-able and look like on this example:
>>> {
>>>     hey: "guy",
>>>     anumber: 243,
>>>     - anobject: {
>>>         whoa: "nuts",
>>>         - anarray: [
>>>             1,
>>>             2,
>>>             "thr<h1>ee"
>>>         ],
>>>         more: "stuff"
>>>     },
>>>     awesome: true,
>>>     bogus: false,
>>>     meaning: null,
>>>     link: "http://jsonview.com",
>>> }
>>>
>>> Where '-' before the field object indicates that object was expanded and
>>> '+' means collapsed object.
>>> Clicking on expanded fields should collapse them and vice verse. So for
>>> this example, clicking on 'anobject' should result in:
>>> {
>>>     hey: "guy",
>>>     anumber: 243,
>>>     anobject: {    ... }
>>>     awesome: true,
>>>     bogus: false,
>>>     meaning: null,
>>>     link: "http://jsonview.com",
>>> }
>>>
>>> In short I need a view similar to the one provided by JSONView plugin
>>> for Firefox:
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jsonview/
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for any info, comments and ideas about this project!
>>>
>>>
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