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API Documentation 1: JSON and XML

JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
Introduction
 This Lecture Covers
 What is JSON?
 Basic types
 Arrays
 Objects
 Nesting
 Indentation
JSON

 JavaScript Object Notation


 JavaScript is a programming language
 JSON was originally created to hold structured
data to be used in JavaScript
 JSON became so popular…
 It is used for data for all kinds of applications
 It is the most popular way of sending data for Web
APIs
Basic Data Types
 Strings
 Enclosed in single or double quotation marks
 Numbers
 Integer or decimal, positive or negative
 Booleans
 true or false
 No quotation marks
 null
 Means “nothing”.
 No quotation marks
Arrays
 Arrays are lists
 In square brackets [ ]
 Comma-separated
 Can mix data types
 Examples:
 [4, 6, 23.1, -4, 0, 56]
 ["red", "green", "blue"]
 [65, "toast", true, 21, null, 100]
Objects
 Objects are JSON’s dictionaries
 They are enclosed in curly brackets { }
 Keys and values are separated by a colon :
 Pairs are separated by commas.
 Keys and values can be any data type.
 Example:
 {"red":205, "green":123, "blue":53}
Nesting
 Nesting involves putting arrays and objects
inside each other:
 You can put arrays inside objects, objects
inside arrays, arrays inside arrays, etc.
 Often a JSON file is one big object with lots of
objects and arrays inside.
Example JSON: Describing a song
{
"song":
{
"title": "Hey Jude",
"artist": "The Beatles",
"musicians":
["John Lennon", "Paul McCartney",
"George Harrison", "Ringo Starr"]
}
}
Example JSON: Describing a menu
{
"menu": [ File View
{ "header": "File",
"items": [ Open Zoom In
{"id": "Open", "label": "Open"},
{"id": "New", "label": "New"},
New Zoom Out
{"id": "Close", "label": "Close"}
Close Original View
] },
{ "header": "View",
"items": [
{"id": "ZoomIn", "label": "Zoom In"},
{"id": "ZoomOut", "label": "Zoom Out"},
{"id": "OriginalView", "label": "Original View"}
]}
]}
White Space and Indentation
 “White space” means spaces, new lines, etc.
 White space doesn’t matter
 Unless it’s inside quotation marks
 Good JSON formatting
 In general, add an indent for every new level of
brackets
 End lines with commas
 Lots of exceptions to this!
Review
 JSON represents structured data
 Basic types: string, number, Boolean, null
 Arrays (lists) use square brackets [ ]
 Objects (dictionaries) use curly brackets { }
 Collections can contain collections
 White space doesn’t matter
 Indent for every level of collection

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