9.5 Serialization with JSON
Many libraries we’ll use to interact with cloud-based services such as Twitter, IBM Watson and others communicate with your applications via JSON objects. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-and-computer-readable, data-interchange format used to represent objects (such as dictionaries, lists and more) as collections of name–value pairs. JSON can even represent objects of custom classes like those you’ll build in the next chapter.
JSON has become the preferred data format for transmitting objects across platforms. This is especially true for invoking cloud-based web services, which are functions and methods that you call over the Internet. You’ll become proficient at working with JSON data. In ...
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