Posts Tagged “JSON”
From time to time I get some of this odd API response from requesting information for a specific something. I expect the response data to be a simple JSON object. Instead I am looking at a JSON array. I suppose that is still simple enough and it’s not so odd. This kind of response happens…
There is this Java library that I utilize to quickly get values from JSON objects that is fairly easy to use. This would be Jayway JsonPath. More can be had at their GitHub page. It is still being actively maintained. There appear to be a number of contributors involved in this project at different points…
Properties written in YAML format in my opinion reads better, far better for a human, especially when an application has tons of properties in there. Well, after all YAML was designed to be a human-readable data-serialization language. Officially it complies with JSON and is a subset of the latter (depends which version though as I’ve…
One of those people who is guilty of frequently relying on online 3rd party JSON formatting tools so messily formatted JSON strings or one-liners can be saner to read. If you are like me who deal with JSON almost every day for development, reading log messages, error tracing, etc., readability for JSON is a must….
How many countless times must I have found myself with a piece of JSON string that is formatted in a way that makes it very hard for me to read. Perhaps you’ve also experienced this several times too? As a back-end developer, having to deal with a lot of JSON is unavoidable. Heck, I deal…
As a back-end developer, consuming JSON objects is pretty much very common. I think it is second only to publishing data in JSON format, the other end of what is usually a 2-way street. We may have a REST API endpoint that accepts orders for an online food delivery service that takes in JSON formatted…