Recon

Web Agents and their lanes define the entities and associated operations of a streaming API. But this definition is incomplete without also defining the data structures supported by each operation. Swim uses a simple, structural data model, called Recon, to exchange streaming messages.

Recon was designed to meet a number of key requirements:

• uniform tree structure to simplify procedural processing of structured data
• expressive syntax to avoid the proliferation of textual microformats
• polymorphic to uniformly disambiguate serialized polymorphic objects
• distributive parsing to cleanly and efficiently support incremental parsing
• simple grammar to facilitate many compatible implementations
• universal data type compatible with JSON, XML, and other popular data languages

Jump ahead to WARP to see how Recon is used as the wire format for a multiplexed streaming network protocol. Dive into the tutorials to see how Recon is used in practice to serialize application objects. Or read on to learn more about the unique properties of Recon.