{"id":255,"date":"2018-04-30T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/?p=255"},"modified":"2021-09-27T23:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:43:45","slug":"json-syntax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/json-syntax\/","title":{"rendered":"JSON Syntax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A JSON document may contain information separated by the following separators or tokens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><code>\":\"<\/code> to separate name from value<\/li><li><code>\",\"<\/code> to separate name-value pairs<\/li><li><code>\"{\"<\/code> and <code>\"}\"<\/code> for objects<\/li><li><code>\"[\"<\/code> and <code>\"]\"<\/code> for arrays<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. JSON name-value pairs example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Name-value pairs have a colon between them as in <code>\"name\" : \"value\"<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JSON names are on the left side of the colon. They need to be wrapped in double quotation marks, as in &#8220;name&#8221; and can be any valid string. <em>Within each object, keys need to be unique.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JSON values are found to the right of the colon. At the granular level, these need to be one of 6 simple data types:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>string<\/li><li>number<\/li><li>object<\/li><li>array<\/li><li>boolean<\/li><li>null or empty<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Each name-value pair is separated by a comma, so the JSON looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>\"name\" : \"value\", \"name\" : \"value\", \"name\": \"value\"<\/code> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e.g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"json\" class=\"language-json\">{\r\n    \"color\" : \"Purple\",\r\n    \"id\" : \"210\"\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. JSON object example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A JSON object is a key-value data format that is typically rendered in curly braces. A JSON object looks something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"json\" class=\"language-json\">{\r\n\t\"color\" : \"Purple\",\r\n\t\"id\" : \"210\",\r\n\t\"composition\" : {\r\n\t\t\"R\" : 70,\r\n\t\t\"G\" : 39,\r\n\t\t\"B\" : 89\r\n\t}\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. JSON array example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Data can also be nested within the JSON by using JavaScript arrays that are passed as a value using square brackets <code>[ ]<\/code> on either end of its array type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JSON arrays are ordered collections and can contain values of different data types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"json\" class=\"language-json\">{\r\n\t\"colors\" :\r\n\t[\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\"color\" : \"Purple\",\r\n\t\t\"id\" : \"210\"\r\n\t\t},\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\"color\" : \"Blue\",\r\n\t\t\"id\" : \"211\"\r\n\t\t},\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\"color\" : \"Black\",\r\n\t\t\"id\" : \"212\"\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t]\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A JSON document may contain information separated by the following separators or tokens. &#8220;:&#8221; to separate name from value &#8220;,&#8221; to separate name-value pairs &#8220;{&#8221; and &#8220;}&#8221; for objects &#8220;[&#8221; and &#8220;]&#8221; for arrays 1. JSON name-value pairs example Name-value pairs have a colon between them as in &#8220;name&#8221; : &#8220;value&#8221;. JSON names are on &#8230; <a title=\"JSON Syntax\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/json-syntax\/\" aria-label=\"More on JSON Syntax\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restfulapi.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}