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JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write and for machines to parse and generate. It is built on two structures: a collection of name/value pairs and an ordered list of values. JSON supports strings, numbers, objects, arrays, true, false and null. JavaScript is a superset of JSON and JSON can be parsed into JavaScript objects for easy use.

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Session 23

JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write and for machines to parse and generate. It is built on two structures: a collection of name/value pairs and an ordered list of values. JSON supports strings, numbers, objects, arrays, true, false and null. JavaScript is a superset of JSON and JSON can be parsed into JavaScript objects for easy use.

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JSON

Venkat Subramaniam – [email protected] 1


Does Ajax need XML?
• The X in Ajax once stood for XML

• Now x is more like ? Whatever that’s


appropriate

• XML has its advantages and


disadvantages
– Very expressive, but too noisy, large, slow…

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JSON
• JavaScript Object Notation

• It is intended to be minimal

• It is a textual notation of data

• JavaScript is a superset of JSON


• YAML is a superset of JSON
– YAML decoder and JavaScript interpreter can
be used as JSON decoder
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What’s in JSON

Venkat Subramaniam – [email protected] Source: http:www/json.org 4


• Strings
String
– Any double quoted Unicode character
– Double quote escaped using \
– Empty string represented by ""

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Number
• Numbers
– Integer, real, scientific
– Use null for invalid/infinity

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Object
• Objects: More of a hashmap notation
– {"keyname": JSONValue, "keyname":
JSONValue,…}
– JSONValue may be any of the JSON value
types including other objects

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Arrays
• Arrays
– Sequence of values
– [JSONValue, JSONValue, JSONValue, …]
– Index is decided by implementation (like Java
can use 0, VB can use 1, JSON doesn’t care)
– JSONValue may be any JSON value type
including objects and arrays

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Using JSON to Populate a Page

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Concerns with eval
• eval sends the JSON text (or any text) to
the Java compiler

• May not be safe

• Use only if trusted source

• What’s the alternative

• parseJSON only parses JSON text


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parseJSON
• Available from http://
www.json.org/json.js
• Parses only JSON text and is fast

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Convert to JSON
• toJSONString() converts an object to
JSON

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More Convenience
• More convenient processing functions are
sprouting up

• There is also proposal for JSONRequest


object to be standardized by browsers
– http://json.org/JSONRequest.html

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