679 JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight format that is used for data interchanging. It is based on a subset of JavaScript language (the way objects are built in JavaScript). As stated in the …

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 …

JSON is used a lot for application data and configuration settings, so comments are necessary now. The "official spec" is a nice idea, but it's insufficient and obsolete, so too bad. Minify your JSON if you're …

Oct 16, 2009 · JSON stems from Javascript (JavaScript Object Notation), it only makes sense that it was originally adapted for use in Javascript. Unfortunately, as with all things related to Javascript, it has …

May 11, 2013 · Here I'm creating a JavaScript object and converting it to a JSON string, but JSON.stringify returns " [object Object]" in this case, instead of displaying the contents of the object.

I need my JSON output to show the "idTransanction" and "details" fields first for logging purposes. Currently, Jackson alphabeticalizes them or follows a random order.

Do standards or best practices exist for structuring JSON responses from an API? Obviously, every application's data is different, so that much I'm not concerned with, but rather the "response

java's built in JSON libraries are the quickets way to do so, but in my experience GSON is the best library for parsing a JSON into a POJO painlessly.

How can I display JSON in an easy-to-read (for human readers) format? I'm looking primarily for indentation and whitespace, with perhaps even colors / font-styles / etc.

356 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 …