Symbols not rendering correctly

[sancarn]

This is pretty vital and is a result of numerous issues:

• All objects are compiled to JSON before being sent to JavaScript and JSON does not support symbols.
• Even if symbols were supported in JSON, the rendering of Objects doesn't support it. I.E. we might have to create our own HTML elements necessary for rendering Ruby objects.

Ultimately, on the onset we would either have to:

• Use something other than JSON (maybe XML?)
• Convert all symbols to symbol objects embedded in JSON e.g. {"__type__":"Symbol", "__name__":"SomeSymbol"}
• We make "Ruby Hash Notation" which supports symbols directly: {"something"=>"something",:something=>"something else"}. And even then we'd need some way of integrating object properties.

Then when this is done, we would need to create some rendering system for the RHN objects.

[sancarn]

New idea is to use extendedJSON:

https://github.com/LaunchMenu/LaunchMenu/blob/master/src/core/communication/extendedJSON.js

I just need to make ruby stringify and parse commands.

[sancarn]

Better idea - Use RON

[sancarn]

Example where this breaks:

xx = {:a=>1, "a"=>3}
# Appears as though this returns {a=>3} however
xx[:a] # 1 as required
xx["a"] # 3 as required

this is mainly due to JSON encoding of results