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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #2041, comment 1

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6	6	The outermost level of a JSON object must be a list or a dictionary. In this case we chose to use a list in which the first element gives the type.
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8		While you're right that this could have been done a little more simply (by using a dictionary {{{{"type": "dirnode", ...}}}} rather than a list {{{["dirnode, {...}]}}} for example), I don't think it is worth the hassle of an incompatible change, which would be very disruptive.
	8	While you're right that this could have been done a little more simply (by using a dictionary {{{{"type": "dirnode", ...}}}} rather than a list {{{["dirnode", {...}]}}} for example), I don't think it is worth the hassle of an incompatible change, which would be very disruptive.
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10	10	> Also I don't think creating another dictionary for metadata adds any clarity or convenience.