Jasmine

Jasmine is proprietary serialization format used by Intype. It's inspired by JavaScript, JSON and Apple's PropertList formats. In current version, Jasmine supports some aditional values and notation.

Jasmine has been designed for easier configuration on Intype until UI's are not implemented. Jasmine supports these basic value types:

  • Strings
  • Symbols
  • Numbers
  • Arrays
  • Dictionaries
  • Regular Expressions

Strings

There are two types of string notation: double-quoted and single-quoted. These types differ mostly in escaping, supporting two models: full escaping (for exact input), and loose (for easier input). Strings are basically multi-lined.

Double-Quoted Strings

Double-quoted strings is strict and supports all common escaping sequences:

Escape Sequence Description Unicode
\" Quotation Mark U+0022
\\ Reversed Solidus U+005C
\t Tab Character U+0009
\n Line Ending (when the string is inserted into document, it's automatically tranformed to user preferences on how line's end in the document) U+000D U+000A (CR+LF)
U+000A(LF)
U+000D(CR)
\uXXXX Unicode Character U+XXXX
Other escape sequences are not decoded, and are considered as normal two-character sequence.

Examples:

"String \"with escaped quotes\""
"\tString with tab character"

Single-Quoted Strings

Single-quoted strings are designed for easy textual input. They don't support any of the former escape sequences. There's only one sequence:

Escape Sequence Description Unicode
''
double-appostrophe		 Apostrophe U+0027

Examples:

'String ''with escaped'' quotes'
'   String with tab character'

String Operators

There are two operators for concatenanting strings. Plus operator simply concatenates strings:

    "All your " + "base " + "are belong to " + 'us'

    == All your base are belong to us

Plus-NewLine operator concatenates two strings, but inserts line-ending character between the strings.

    "All your " \ "base " \ "are belong to " \ 'us'

    == All your \nbase \nare belong to \nus

Symbols

Symbols are basically single-word strings, used mainly in dictionary as key-values. A symbol must be a sequence of characters specified in following table and if not used as dictionary key, symbol cannot start with number.

Characters Note
a-z
U+0061 to U+007A		 Lowercase Letters
A-Z
U+0041 to U+005A		 Uppercase Letters
0-9
U+0030 to U+0039		 Numbers
_
U+005F		 Underscore
-
U+002D		 Hyphen
.
U+002E		 Dot

Numbers

Jasmine supports integers and floating numbers. All these notations are valid:

12345
-12345
3.141592
1.618e+10
1.618E+10

Arrays

Arrays are delimited in square brackets. Array can contain any other value supported by Jasmine. Values don't need to be delimited by comma.

[
    "One"
    2
    {
        four_key: Four
    }   
]

ToDo:

  • ToDo: Numbers
  • ToDo: Regular expressions
  • ToDo: Dictionaries