Improve show for nested Objects #301
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This PR improves the usefulness and performance of
Base.show
-ing nestedJSON3.Object
s.Here's an example with the Plotly.JS schema. It takes several seconds to show the Object, and no information about the nested objects has been provided:
With this PR:
Note that the top level show method uses
show(::IO, ::MIME"text/plain", ::AbstractDict)
and nested objects useshow(::IO, ::Object)
.This will break any downstream code that relied on
Base.show(::IO, ::Object)
to generated valid JSON. If valid JSON is a requirement I'd propose changingBase.show(io::IO, obj::Object) = JSON3.write(io, obj)
. It's still slow at about 1 second, but it at least would show some of the contents: