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[Zodiac Seven]

Thanks David,

Can someone recommend a good json library.

On 4/17/08, David Flanagan <david at davidflanagan.com> wrote:
>
> Zodiac Seven wrote:
>
> >
> > I only need the names and I could parse those out of the string but is
> > there a cleaner way to do it like using javascript's eval or some sort
> > of freebase support function? I think if I could get a array of objects
> > I could iterate through them copying 'object[i].name'.
> > Any sample code would be helpful.
> >
>
>
> Freebase queries and response are in JSON. You should be using a JSON
> library to serialize queries and parse responses.
>
> Also, it sounds as if you have not yet read the documentation which you
> can find here:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/api
>
>         David Flanagan
>
>
> >
> > On 4/16/08, *Kurt Bollacker* <kurt at metaweb.com
>
> > <mailto:kurt at metaweb.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:44:36PM +0530, Zodiac Seven wrote:
> >      > I'm writing a small app on FreeBase.
> >      > I'm trying to build a category tree which shows the main
> >     categories (sports,
> >      > arts & crafts, etc.) and lets the user drill down to additional
> sub
> >      > categories.
> >      > Is there something like this already built which I can use?
> >
> >
> >     Something close to what you want can be found as a MJT app at:
> >
> >     http://www.mjtemplate.org/examples/schemas/
> >
> >     More about MJT can be found at:
> >
> >     http://www.mjtemplate.org/
> >
> >
> >      > I notice that I can get a list of the categories for "Sports"
> >     like this:
> >      >
> >      > { "query" : [ { "domains" : [ { "id" : null, "name" : null,
> "type" :
> >      > "/type/domain" } ], "name" : "Sports", "type" :
> >     "/freebase/domain_category"
> >      > } ]}
> >      >
> >      > but I can't figure out how to get a list of categories under
> >      > "Sports/Basketball"
> >
> >
> >     The hierarchy you are looking at has this order:
> >
> >     Domain Category
> >       Domain
> >         Type
> >           Property
> >
> >     Your query above retrieves all of the domains in a domain category.
> >     To get the types (e.g. Basketball Team) in a domain (e.g.
> Basketball),
> >     you can use a similar query:
> >
> >     {
> >       "query" : [
> >         {
> >           "name" : "Basketball",
> >           "type" : "/type/domain",
> >           "types" : [
> >             {
> >               "id" : null,
> >               "name" : null,
> >               "type" : "/type/type"
> >             }
> >           ]
> >         }
> >       ]
> >     }
> >
> >     Hope this helps...                                              Kurt
> :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >      > Regards,
> >      >
> >      > Deepak.
> >
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