JSON Validator not accepting top level arrays.

[jannylun]

Moi!

The built-in JSON Validator does not consider top level arrays as valid JSON. Top level arrays may not be the preferred solution, but I believe they are valid JSON. Please check the behavior of the validator.

Br,
Jan

[Radu]

Hi Jan,

Can you give me a small example of JSON code that the editor considers as invalid?

Regards,
Radu

[jannylun]

Hello Radu!

For example:

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[

    {

        "color": "red",

        "value": "#f00"

    },

    {

        "color": "green",

        "value": "#0f0"

    }

]

or

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[ 100, 500, 300, 200, 400 ]

Gives error:

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E [JSON Validator] A JSONObject text must begin with '{'

These are valid according to for example jsonlint.com.

Another thing is that oxygen approves strings that are not wrapped in quotes, so this is considered valid in oxygen:

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{

	color: "red",

	value: "#f00"

}

While jsonlint.com says:

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 Parse error on line 1:

{    color: "red",    va

-----^

Expecting 'STRING', '}'

//Jan

[Radu]

Hi Jan,

You're right in both cases, I registered both issues to our internal bugs list and I'll update this forum post with more details when they are implemented.

Regards,
Radu

[jannylun]

Thanks!

[Radu]

Hi Jan,

In Oxygen 13.1 (which will be available in a couple of weeks) you will be able to validate, format and indent and edit in the Grid page also JSON Arrays.

The other problem (missing quotes to the key not reported as errors) will probably be fixed in a future version.

Regards,
Radu

[Radu]

Hi,

Just to update this post, this issue:

The other problem (missing quotes to the key not reported as errors) will probably be fixed in a future version.

was fixed in Oxygen 15.0 which should report it as an error.

Regards,
Radu