[TAP5-100] When rendering a partial markup response, Tapestry should quote attributes with single quotes (so that each quote doesn't have to be escaped in the JSON)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.15
• Fix Version/s: 5.1.0.0
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 29/Feb/08 19:46
• Updated: 11/Jan/09 23:18
• Resolved: 11/Jan/09 23:18

Description

When JSON output is sent to the client, it escapes each double quote with a backslash character.

Most of the Tapestry code and typical markup uses double quotes, so there's a lot of characters to escape, which not only increases the size of the output, but makes it less readable.

Example:

{"script":"Tapestry.initializeZones([], [[\"form:11866b5b0ae\",\"output\"],[\"clear:11866b5b0ae\",\"output
\"]]);Tapestry.registerValidation({\"password:11866b5b0ae\":[[\"required\",\"You must provide a value
for Password.\"],[\"minlength\",\"You must provide at least 6 characters for Password.\",6]],\"birthYear
:11866b5b0ae\":[[\"required\",\"You must provide a value for Birth Year.\"],[\"min\",\"Birth Year requires
a value of at least 1900. \",1900],[\"max\",\"Birth Year requires a value no larger than 2007.\",2007
]],\"firstName:11866b5b0ae\":[[\"required\",\"You must provide a value for First Name.\"],[\"minlength
\",\"You must provide at least 3 characters for First Name.\",3]],\"lastName:11866b5b0ae\":[[\"required

Using single quotes around JSON Object keys and values would make this a lot more readable, as only the occasional single quote would need to be backslash escaped.

Hm. The official JSON spec (http://www.json.org/) seems to indicate that strings must be quoted with double quotes.