Would application/json-seq be a suitable mime type for jsonl?

[andre-c-andersen]

I came accross this RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7464

It suggests using application/json-seq as the mimetype for json objects delimited by new lines. It is also cited on wikipedia . For completeness sake, I also created a stackoverflow question/answer here .

If this is the correct mime type for jsonl, then I suggest adding it to jsonlines.org since it was the first hit on google, when researching this.

[wardi]

sounds good to me, mind making the change?

[andre-c-andersen]

@wardi Unfortunately I discovered it is likely not the "correct" mime-type. I asked over at SO, and was made aware that json-seq includes a <RS> (ref) character. While jsonl, from what I understand, relies on just line separators. Some suggestions which showed up where:

application/json-lines
application/jsonl
applicaiton/x-...

I suggest we somehow figure out which is used most, and support it as preferred (as well as listing other alternatives).

To start:

Google returns 9 results for "application/json-lines" and 52 for "application/jsonl". Just for reference "application/json-seq" gets 1340 results.

[glensc]

There's also: application/json-l and extension .jsonl:

• JSON-L ndjson/ndjson-spec#23

[sp4ce]

I suggest closing this issue and keeping only #19 open to avoid confusion application/json-seq does not work (because jsonl is not the same), so we would probably need another type. I suggest closing this issue because the title of the issue is about json-seq and nothing else.