Intro to JSON
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JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
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It’s data representation format similar to XML files or YAML
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It’s commonly used for APIs and Configs
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It’s used because it’s lightweight and easy to Read/Write
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It also integrates very nicely with JavaScript since JSON is just a superset of JavaScript which means every thing you write in JSON is valid JavaScript
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It’s integrates Easily with most languages, each language have library or built-in functionality to parse JSON strings into objects or classes in this languages like Py json
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Human-readable: Easy for humans to understand and edit.
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Language-independent: Can be used to exchange data between different programming languages.
JSON types
- Objects like dictionaries, it have key : value (the most used data type)
- Comments are not permitted in JSON
{
"key1": "Value",
"key2": "Value"
}- You can nest different properties and different types in each other.
- Example: You can put object in object as a value, or you can add array in object
