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Human readable JSON output option

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Resolved Resolved
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.0
  • Fix Version/s: 1.4, 1.3.1
  • Labels:
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  • Number of attachments :
    2

Description

It would be really nice if there was a way to get human readable JSON like so:
{"myPrefix4":

{ "id": "id0", "title": "Sample item 1", "text": "This is the first preloaded sample item", "owner": "admin", "flagged": false, "number": 1, "sakaiEntity": "true", "sakaiEntity-URL": "http://localhost:8081/direct/webapp-entity/id0", "sakaiEntity-ID": "id0" }}

instead of only the machine readable stuff like:
{"myPrefix4":{"id":"4-one","stuff":"something","number":0,"sakaiEntity":true,"sakaiEntity-URL":"http:\/\/localhost:8001\/portal\/direct\/myPrefix4\/4-one","sakaiEntity-ID":"4-one"}}

This would need to be optional but it would make it a lot easier for developers who need to work with the JSON to read it when there are some spaces and line breaks.

  1. Java Source File
    JsonIndenter.java
    11/Jun/08 3:39 PM
    12 kB
    Chris Hyzer
  2. Java Source File
    JsonIndenter.java
    11/Jun/08 1:31 PM
    10 kB
    Chris Hyzer

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Chris Hyzer added a comment -

I am attaching code that you can have that I wrote which formats and indents a json string... feel free to use it, modify, throw away, whatever

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Chris Hyzer added a comment - I am attaching code that you can have that I wrote which formats and indents a json string... feel free to use it, modify, throw away, whatever
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Chris Hyzer added a comment -

sorry for the repeat, here is one with no dependencies, and a "main" example... if you have a test case that is wrong, feel free to let me know and I can support this part...

Regards,
Chris

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Chris Hyzer added a comment - sorry for the repeat, here is one with no dependencies, and a "main" example... if you have a test case that is wrong, feel free to let me know and I can support this part... Regards, Chris
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Adrian Tarau added a comment -

I would love to have built in formatter/indenter. Dan, would you be open for a patch which will provide support for automatic layout?

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Adrian Tarau added a comment - I would love to have built in formatter/indenter. Dan, would you be open for a patch which will provide support for automatic layout?
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Dejan Bosanac added a comment -

Adrian, the patch would be welcomed. Sorry for the late reply,

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Dejan Bosanac added a comment - Adrian, the patch would be welcomed. Sorry for the late reply,
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Jochen Stiepel added a comment -

Hi, this should be fixed in release 1.3.1. But I can't find a Class with the name JsonIndenter or something similar.
How can I use this to format JSON ?
Regards.

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Jochen Stiepel added a comment - Hi, this should be fixed in release 1.3.1. But I can't find a Class with the name JsonIndenter or something similar. How can I use this to format JSON ? Regards.
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Sergey Beryozkin added a comment -

It's called 'StringIndenter' given that this form of identation is about building the in mem representation...

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Sergey Beryozkin added a comment - It's called 'StringIndenter' given that this form of identation is about building the in mem representation...

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  • Assignee:
    Sergey Beryozkin
    Reporter:
    Aaron Zeckoski
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