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March 10, 2017 by Matt Leave a Comment

What is JSON? A brief introduction.

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is a syntax for storing and exchanging text information. Much like XML. Although it is smaller than XML, faster and easier to parse.

Example of a JSON array:

{
“name”:”John”,
“age”:30,
“cars”:[ “Ford”, “BMW”, “Fiat” ]
}

In a nutshell:

  • JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation
  • JSON is lightweight text-data interchange format
  • JSON is language independent *
  • JSON is “self-describing” and easy to understand

* JSON uses JavaScript syntax for describing data objects, but JSON is still language and platform independent. JSON parsers and JSON libraries exists for many different programming languages.

iWebSrv makes extensive use of JSON for data exchange when it interfaces with other web services.

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