[rfk-dev] androidfindskitten

[Harry J Mason]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Steve Pomeroy wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 02:02:54PM +0200, Lajcik wrote:
>> An update mechanism is definitely better than fetching a whole blob each
>> time there's an update.
>
> Why? This isn't a lot of data. Sure it could be more efficient, but
> there are benefits to simplicity when it comes to implementing a
> consumer.
>
> My solution:
> Just serve a JSON file which contains all the NKI. It should be as
> simple as:
>
>   [ 'nki1', 'nki2']

I'd argue that plain text would be even better. One NKI per line, standard
UTF-8 encoding; this would be trivial to parse in any language, requires no
complex escaping rules, and is as small as possible.

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