Yes. The JSON format has a lot of dead-space between elements and is space-insensitive in those regions, so there's no reason why you can't have single or multi-line comments there. Many parsers and minifiers support JSON comments as well, so just make sure your parser supports them.
354 A JSON string must be double-quoted, according to the specs, so you don't need to escape '. If you have to use special character in your JSON string, you can escape it using \ character. See this list of special character used in JSON :
Of course, the correct MIME media type for JSON is application/json, but it's necessary to realize what type of data is expected in your application. For example, I use Java Ext GWT and the server response must go as text/html but contains JSON data.
Ex: I had one JSON object on each line, without being wrapped in an array, and it formatted the first line's object, and deleted the other 2. Undo-ing and wrapping in the array, fixed it, but just something to keep in mind.
jq . some.json and you get colors as a bonus (and way easier extendability). Addendum: There is some confusion in the comments about using jq to process large JSON files on the one hand, and having a very large jq program on the other. For pretty-printing a file consisting of a single large JSON entity, the practical limitation is RAM.
The JSON data is an object (basically an associative array). Indexed arrays use square brackets, , while associative arrays use curly braces, . Any of the data within the outermost object can be either type of array, but the outermost object itself has to use curly braces.
I did it many times, and each time I forgot where it was. Menu File → Preferences → Settings. I get this: I want to open file settings.json (editable JSON file) instead. How can I do that?
What is the preferred method for returning null values in JSON? Is there a different preference for primitives? For example, if my object on the server has an Integer called "myCount" wit...
json dump will write the json as string in the file. How can I get a json file that is not in the form of string, but just dictionary-like? Is it possible?
We put the outer double quotes to make it a valid JSON string javascript takes the result and passes it to the JSON.parse () fn. JSON.parse evaluates the string using escape sequence rules from the JSON standard, replacing \n with a newline char, \t with a tab char, etc. In our case, the first character it sees is ", so it knows this is a JSON ...
