CodeMirror is slow

[elkouhen]

Hello,

I have been working on some models (a few thousand of lines) for my customer (SNCF).

My models include very big json files (examples of request and response data).

I understand that CodeMirror is well suited for editing the raml files.

But It seems to me that CodeMirror is overkill for visualizing JSON files.

I replaced CodeMirror with a "simpler" editor (https://github.com/hrovira/jsoneditor)

The tool is now much much faster ...

Maybe you could keep on using CodeMirror for the RAML files and choose another editor for the other kind of files ?

Best regards, Mehdi

[dmartinezg]

Hi @elkouhen this is a really good suggestion. CM is a bit slow, although it is not 100% its fault. We also do a lot of magic in the back when you are editing a RAML file. Using a separate editor for non RAML content is a good idea. Thanks a lot!

[usarid]

I love the idea too, but I’m thinking about the UX — how do we know which editor to create? Specifically, how do I know, when a user creates a new file in the designer, whether to use a CM instance or a different editor? Would we suggest they use a different extension for these files? Say the user created a file named schemas.json, we could use a more efficient JSON editor. But when I !include a set of JSON schemas, the file itself is a RAML fragment, something like:

- users: |
    {
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-03/schema" ,
      "type": "array",
      "items": 
      {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": 
        {
          "id": { "type": "string", "required": true },
          "name": { "type": "string", "required": true },
          "email": { "type": "string", "required": true }
        }
      }
    }
- user: |
    {
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-03/schema" ,
      "type": "object",
      "properties": 
      {
        "id": { "type": "string", "required": true },
        "name": { "type": "string", "required": true },
        "email": { "type": "string", "required": true }
      }
    }

So should there be different extensions for RAML fragments, and specifically ones that are optimized for JSON or XML?

[sichvoge]

Fully for using a separate JSON Editor to create JSON schemas and examples. Therefore, can we reopen this discussion, please :)