Make json gem optional about grackle HOT 2 CLOSED

I appreciate the situation you're in but I don't see the JSON gem becoming an optional component. JSON is grackle's default format and Twitter has indicated that supporting XML has become a very large burden for them. I don't know that they'll deprecate XML any time soon but I think JSON is the way of the future for them.

That said, I could try to make grackle smarter by attempting to detect whatever JSON serializer/deserializer is available in the system and use that (JSON pure, for example, would eliminate the need for compilation, I believe). I could also detect if no JSON implementation is available and set the default to XML.

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Fallback to a pure json gem would be a perfect solution indeed! That would work nicely for me as well. It would be slower, but speed is not really important for me since I am posting asynchronously.

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