Beginning JSON

CHAPTER 4

Introducing JSON

The JavaScript Object Notation data format, or JSON for short, is derived from the literals of the JavaScript programming language. This makes JSON a subset of the JavaScript language. As a subset, JSON does not possess any additional features that the JavaScript language itself does not already possess. Although JSON is a subset of a programming language, it itself is not a programming language but, in fact, a data interchange format.

JSON is known as the data interchange standard, which subtextually implies that it can be used as the data format wherever the exchange of data occurs. A data exchange can occur between ...