A JSON string must be double-quoted, according to the specs, so you don't need to escape '. If you have to use special character in your JSON string, you can escape it using \ character. …

java's built in JSON libraries are the quickets way to do so, but in my experience GSON is the best library for parsing a JSON into a POJO painlessly.

Yes. The JSON format has a lot of dead-space between elements and is space-insensitive in those regions, so there's no reason why you can't have single or multi-line comments there. …

What is the preferred method for returning null values in JSON? Is there a different preference for primitives? For example, if my object on the server has an Integer called …

I have saved a JSON file in my local system and created a JavaScript file in order to read the JSON file and print data out. Here is the JSON file: {"resource":"A","literal...

json dump will write the json as string in the file. How can I get a json file that is not in the form of string, but just dictionary-like? Is it possible?

Unfortunately, that doesn't work in Python 3. json.load is just a wrapper around json.loads that calls read () for a file-like object. json.loads requires a string object and the output of …

Any recommendations on how to embed JSON in an HTML page with the JSON formatted in a human readable style? For example, when you view XML in a browser, most browsers display …

jq . some.json and you get colors as a bonus (and way easier extendability). Addendum: There is some confusion in the comments about using jq to process large JSON files on the one hand, …

Adding another solution (Python 3) - Iterating over json files in a directory and on each file iterating over all objects and printing relevant fields. See comments in the code.