[signa11]

> ... allow you to specify that an input string/blob should be smaller than 10MB and refuse to deserialize it if it is longer ...

why ? are there no cases where serializing even larger file is valid ?

[afiori]

sure, a lot of cases, I suspect that S3 upload limits are different from imgur.

[signa11]

and feel free to do that in _your_ application. don’t shackle others with the limitations of your domain.

mechanism vs policy and all that.

[afiori]

I believe I have already justified why it might be useful at the protocol/schema level in ways that cannot be replicated at the application level: to eagerly fail on expensive (eg memory) deserialization.