This is all you need for valid JSON, right?
["somestring1", "somestring2"] 4 Answers
I'll elaborate a bit more on ChrisR awesome answer and bring images from his awesome reference.
A valid JSON always starts with either curly braces { or square brackets [, nothing else.
{ will start an object:
{ "key": value, "another key": value } Hint: although javascript accepts single quotes
', JSON only takes double ones".
[ will start an array:
[value, value] Hint: spaces among elements are always ignored by any JSON parser.
And value is an object, array, string, number, bool or null:
So yeah, ["a", "b"] is a perfectly valid JSON, like you could try on the link Manish pointed.
Here are a few extra valid JSON examples, one per block:
{} [0] {"__comment": "json doesn't accept comments and you should not be commenting even in this way", "avoid!": "also, never add more than one key per line, like this"} [{ "why":null} ] { "not true": [0, false], "true": true, "not null": [0, 1, false, true, { "obj": null }, "a string"] } Your JSON object in this case is a list. JSON is almost always an object with attributes; a set of one or more key:value pairs, so you most likely see a dictionary:
{ "MyStringArray" : ["somestring1", "somestring2"] } then you can ask for the value of "MyStringArray" and you would get back a list of two strings, "somestring1" and "somestring2".
Basically yes, JSON is just a javascript literal representation of your value so what you said is correct.
You can find a pretty clear and good explanation of JSON notation on
String strJson="{\"Employee\": [{\"id\":\"101\",\"name\":\"Pushkar\",\"salary\":\"5000\"}, {\"id\":\"102\",\"name\":\"Rahul\",\"salary\":\"4000\"}, {\"id\":\"103\",\"name\":\"tanveer\",\"salary\":\"56678\"}]}"; This is an example of a JSON string with Employee as object, then multiple strings and values in an array as a reference to @cregox...
A bit complicated but can explain a lot in a single JSON string.
