[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-270) Collections of Edm.PrimitiveType are problematic in JSON

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Collections of Edm.PrimitiveType are problematic in JSON
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                 Key: ODATA-270
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-270
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: OData JSON Format v1.0, OData Protocol v1.0
    Affects Versions: WD01
            Reporter: Michael Pizzo
             Fix For: WD01


In adding Edm.Primitive as a type specifying "any primitive type" we introduced a problem for JSON. We have no way to annotate individual elements of a JSON array, so we have no way of specifying the types of a heterogeneous collection of primitive types. In some cases these might be heuristically determined, but not all. We might consider disallowing collections of Edm.Primitive as being underspecified. In the future it would be non-breaking to add these as long as we solved the primitive types in a json array problem.

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