JSON
JSON[28] has become one of the more common data formats for dealing with web applications and data exchange. It’s human-readable, and many resources are available for its use. These two factors make it an attractive option as a data format.
The fundamental concepts in JSON are the object and the array, as the two container types for any values in the data. Objects correspond strongly to Clojure’s hash-maps, being an set of key-value pairs. Arrays are ordered lists of arbitrary data and most closely resemble a vector in Clojure.
If we convert the users.edn file from earlier to users.json, it looks like this:
| | [ |
| | {"name": "Joe Smith" |
| | "email": "joe@company.com" |
| | "roles": ["admin", "supervisor", "analyst"]}, |
| | {"name": ... |
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