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JSON
This is a quick reference cheat sheet for understanding and writing JSON format configuration
files.

# Getting Started
Introduction

JSON is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange.

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation

JSON is easy to read and write.

JSON is language agnostic data-interchange format

JSON filename extension is .json

JSON Internet Media type is application/json

Examples

{
"name": "Jason",
"age": 39,
"height": 1.92,
"gender": "M",
"salary": 70000,
"married": true,
"children": [
{"name": "Tom", "age": 9, "gender":"M"},
{"name": "Ava", "age": 7, "gender":"F"}

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Types

Number Double precision floating-point

String Series of characters

Boolean true or false

Array Ordered sequence of values

Value String, Number, Boolean, null etc

Object Unordered collection of key/value pairs

null Null or Empty

String

\" Double quote

\\ Backslash

\/ Forward slash

\b Backspace

\f Form feed

\n Newline

\r Carriage return

\t Tab

\u Trailed by four hex digits

Examples

{
"url": "https://quickref.me",
"msg" : "Hi,\n\"QuickRef.ME\"",
"intro": "Share quick reference and cheat sheet for developers."
}

Invalid String

{ "foo": 'bar' }

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Number

Integer Digits 1-9, 0 and positive or negative

Fraction Fractions like 0.3, 3.9

Exponent Exponent like e, e+, e-, E, E+, E

Examples

{
"positive" : 12,
"negative" : -1,
"fraction" : 10.25,
"exponent" : 1.0E+2,
"zero" : 0
}

Invalid Number

{ "foo": 0xFF }

In JSON you can use only Decimal Literals

Objects

{
"color": "Purple",
"id": "210",
"composition": {
"R": 70,
"G": 39,
"B": 89
},
"empty_object": {}
}

Multiple key/value pairs separated by a comma

Arrays

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Begins with [ and ends with ]

Array of objects

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{
"children": [
{"name": "Jimmy Smith", "age": 15},
{"name": "Sammy Sosa", "age": 12}
]
}

Object of arrays

{
"attributes": ["a1", "a2"],
"methods": ["getter", "setter"],
"empty_array": []
}

2D Array

{
"my_sequences": [
[1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6],
[7, 8, 9, 0],
[10, 11]
]
}

Object of objects

{
"Mark McGwire": {
"hr": 65,
"avg": 0.278
},
"Sammy Sosa": {
"hr": 63,
"avg": 0.288
}
}

Nested

{
"Jack": {
"id": 1,
"name": "Franc",
"salary": 25000,
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"hobby": ["a", "b"],

"location": {
"country": "A", "city": "A-A"
}
}
}

# Access JSON in JavaScript

Access Object

let myObject = {
"name": "Jason",
"last": "Doe",
"age": 39,
"gender": "M",
"salary": 70000,
"married": true
};

myObject.name "Jason"

myObject["name"] "Jason"

myObject.age 39

myObject.other undefined

myObject[0] undefined

Access Nested

let myObject = {
"ref": {
"name": 0,
"last": 1,
"age": 2,
"gender": 3,
"salary": 4,
"married": 5
},
"jdoe": [
"Jason",

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"Doe",
39,
"M",
70000,
true
],
"jsmith": [
"Tom",
"Smith",
42,
"F",
80000,
true
]
};

myObject.ref.age 2

myObject["ref"]["age"] 2

myObject.jdoe ["Jason", "Doe", 39 ...]

myObject.jsmith[3] "F"

myObject[1] undefined

Access Array of Objects

let myArray = [
{
"name": "Jason",
"last": "Doe",
"age": 39,
"gender": "M",
"salary": 70000,
"married": true
},
{
"name": "Tom",
"last": "Smith",
"age": 42,
"gender": "F",
"salary": 80000,
"married": true
},
{
"name": "Amy",

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"last": "Burnquist",
"age": 29,
"gender": "F",
"salary": 60000,
"married": false
}
];

myArray[0] {"name": "Jason", ...}

myArray[1].name "Tom"

myArray[1][2] 42

myArray[3] undefined

myArray[3].gender TypeError: Cannot read...

Access Array

let myArray = [
"Jason",
"Doe",
39,
"M",
70000,
true
];

myArray[1] "Doe"

myArray[5] true

myArray[6] undefined

# Also see
JSON (json.org)
JSON Editor Online (jsoneditoronline.org)
Convert JSON Array to Markdown Table, CSV and more (tableconvert.com)

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