[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24152: Use JSON as alternative to headers

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#24152: Use JSON as alternative to headers
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 Reporter:  ryanve           |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close            |     Focuses:
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Comment (by jamesgol):

 I was going to open a ticket like this and found this while searching.  In
 my tests the JSON method is significantly faster and provides further
 capabilities (namely including values in an array as part of an arbitrary
 header which would be required for an idea I am toying around with).

 There is already a readme.txt validator on wordpress.org, there could
 easily be a json validator as well as many other ways to automatically
 generate the required files.

 It would be trivial to keep this backwards compatible, as if the required
 json file doesn't exist it falls back to the old method (unless disabled
 via a defined constant or past a version if ever deprecated).

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