Questions tagged [json]
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) aka the Fat Free Alternative to XML is a lightweight data exchange format inspired by JavaScript object literals. It is often used with JavaScript, Ajax, and RESTful web services but is completely language independent.
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Proper place to validate JSON in an ASP.NET core app
I am building an ASP.NET Core 10.0 web-app using .NET's MVC model w/ Kestrel to serve it. The app will deploy on an Azure VM. It's a personal project, therefore, I decided to go with Cosmos DB as the ...
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What is a suitable format for writing large amounts of data within few milliseconds
I have a c++ code that needs to store some data whenever an event is triggered. The data contains about 3000 floating point values. So each of these values needs to be written in a file when the event ...
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When Should We Separate DTOs from REST API Serialization Classes? [closed]
We know that combining a domain entity, a DTO, and a REST API serialization class into one won't pass code review:
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
@Data
@Builder
@Entity
@Table(name = "...
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Planning Dynamic Patient Charts with Version Control and Historical Accuracy - Temporal Versioning or JSON
I'm working on a project for our healthcare clinic's software and could use some guidance. For regulatory and historical purposes, patient charts need to remain as "static" records—...
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Rest Endpoint Design
I have 6 endpoints that return 6 json response:
/cities/{id} return a json object: {
"city": "Orlando",
"altitude": 10
}
/cities return an array: [{
"city": &...
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Storing Data For Consumption in Python
I have a program which needs some constant data, in JSON-like format. However, this data only needs to be consumed by my Python program, and by making it Python code, I can include types like datetime....
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Improve return type for CRUD GET list or details objects
When creating the crud GET methods to get a list of items, or the details, what should I return? The whole object properties for both cases? Or just the properties that are necessary? I'm asking this ...
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How do you fix the wrong-case-sensitivity dictionary setting bug-pattern?
There is a coding anti-pattern I've noticed (while using .Net). You declare a data class, which is supposed to have a dictionary field (or get/set Property), and lets call it 'Properties', for the ...
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JSON: RFC8259 Escape forward slash or not?
It seems that the RFC8259 and ECMA-404 definitions of JSON are unclear on the escaping of solidus, aka forward slash.
RFC8259 states:
Any character may be escaped.
All Unicode characters may be ...
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Efficient Schema For Pairing Styling Metadata with Text Fields in JSON Messages
I am trying to design a schema for pairing styling data with text. However, I need it to pair styling metadata to only one part of a larger string.
For example:
"This is a test string"
I ...
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Best practice/design pattern for working with a config file
I am writing an application where a user will have a custom config json file. The json is just a dictionary where they define new objects of the exact same type. Here is an example with outfits:
'...
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Dynamic Variables from JSON Parameter File
I want to assign Python variables imported from a JSON file. This question had an interesting answer using a classmethod, but I couldn't get it to work and I'm not allowed to comment...
So, let's ...
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Handling a numerical value that may be specific or a range in a REST API
Let's say I have a REST API that needs to return the width of an object, but that width may either be a specific value or a range of values. What would be the best practice for designing the API to ...
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Can a REST API response include a reference and preview data
Let's say I have a REST API with resources that look something like this:
/users/<id>
{
"id": <str:user_id>,
"firstName": <str:first_name>,
"lastName&...
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Versioning JSON data in db
I'm curious if there are any obvious pitfalls to the following:
I have a database table that, because it is storing many objects of various subclasses, I'm using a JSON field to hold the non-...