JSON

E39004
data interchange format serialization format

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, text-based data interchange format widely used for transmitting structured data in web APIs and configuration files.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
GeoJSON 1
JavaScript Object Notation 1
json 1

Statements (62)

Predicate Object
instanceOf data interchange format ⓘ
serialization format ⓘ
abbreviation JSON ⓘ
alternativeTo MessagePack ⓘ
Protocol Buffers ⓘ
XML ⓘ
characterEncodingDefault UTF-8 ⓘ
commonlyUsedWith GraphQL ⓘ
HTTP ⓘ
REST API ⓘ
surface form: REST
designedBy Douglas Crockford ⓘ
doesNotSupportComments true ⓘ
fileExtension .json ⓘ
fullName JSON self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: JavaScript Object Notation
hasArrayNotation [ ] ⓘ
hasObjectNotation { } ⓘ
influenced BSON ⓘ
HJSON ⓘ
JSON5 ⓘ
YAML ⓘ
introducedYear 2001 ⓘ
isHumanReadable true ⓘ
isLanguageIndependent true ⓘ
isLightweight true ⓘ
isTextBased true ⓘ
mediaType application/json ⓘ
numberFormat IEEE 754 floating‑point arithmetic standard ⓘ
surface form: IEEE 754 double precision
parsedBy C# programming language ⓘ
surface form: C#

C++ ⓘ
Go ⓘ
Java ⓘ
JavaScript ⓘ
PHP ⓘ
Python ⓘ
Ruby ⓘ
Rust ⓘ
Swift ⓘ
previouslyStandardizedAs RFC 4627 ⓘ
primaryUse client-server communication ⓘ
configuration files ⓘ
data storage ⓘ
web APIs ⓘ
requiresDoubleQuotedKeys true ⓘ
requiresDoubleQuotedStrings true ⓘ
standardizedAs ECMA-404 ⓘ
RFC 8259 ⓘ
supportsDataStructures arrays ⓘ
objects ⓘ
supportsDataType array ⓘ
boolean ⓘ
null ⓘ
number ⓘ
object ⓘ
string ⓘ
supportsEncodingOf key-value pairs ⓘ
nested structures ⓘ
supportsUnicode true ⓘ
syntaxBasedOn JavaScript object literal syntax ⓘ
usedIn AJAX applications ⓘ
NoSQL databases ⓘ
REST APIs ⓘ
microservices ⓘ

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

RESTCONF → dataEncoding → JSON ⓘ
AJAX → dataFormat → JSON ⓘ
DBLP → dataFormat → JSON ⓘ
JSON → fullName → JSON self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: JavaScript Object Notation
this entity surface form: json
GML → relatedTo → JSON ⓘ
this entity surface form: GeoJSON
OpenAPI → supportsFormat → JSON ⓘ
AJAX → uses → JSON ⓘ
ISO 20022 → usesSyntax → JSON ⓘ