From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 1: Software Development and Design
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JSON and its data format
From the course: Cisco DevNet Associate (200-901) Cert Prep 1: Software Development and Design
JSON and its data format
- [Instructor] Let's talk about the JSON data format. JSON is short for JavaScript Object Notation. The term JavaScript might lead you to think that the format is somewhat related to the programming language Java. That is not the case. They are only similar in names. JSON is language-independent. It is an open standard, data interchange format, using human-readable text. Like XML, it is also text-based and lightweight, optimized for storing and interchange data. JSON objects could be easily converted to and from JavaScript, as well as Python objects. JavaScript and Python are two of the most popular programming languages in web development today. This is a big advantage in JSON's adaptation, as we will see in the examples in just a bit. JSON data objects often consist of attribute-value or key-value pairs surrounded by curly brackets, as well as array or list of objects. Where there are multiple key-value pairs or list…
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