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The JSON SagaDouglas Crockford
Yahoo! Inc.
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I am a heretic.
You have been warned.
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I Discovered JSON
• I do not claim to have invented JSON.
It already existed in nature. • I do not claim to have been the first
to discover it. • I gave it a specification and a little
website.• The rest happened by itself.
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2001
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State Software
2002
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The Very First JSON MessageApril 2001
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{to:"session", do:"test", text:"Hello world"}
);
</script></head></html>
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The Very First JSON MessageApril 2001
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{to:"session", do:"test", text:"Hello world"}
);
</script></head></html>
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The Very First JSON MessageApril 2001
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{to:"session", do:"test", text:"Hello world"}
);
</script></head></html>
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The Very First JSON MessageApril 2001
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{to:"session", do:"test", text:"Hello world"}
);
</script></head></html>
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The Very First JSON MessageApril 2001
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{to:"session", do:"test", text:"Hello world"}
);
</script></head></html>
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The Very First JSON MessageApril 2001
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{to:"session", do:"test", text:"Hello world"}
);
</script></head></html>
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The unquoted name problem
• ES3 has a wack reserved word policy.• Reserved words must be quoted.• I did not want to put the list of
reserved words in the JSON spec, so...
• All keys must be quoted.• It significantly simplified JSON.• This conforms to Python.
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Nested HTML
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{"to":"session", "do":"test", "text":"</script>"}
);
</script></head></html>
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Nested HTML
<html><head><script>
document.domain = 'fudco.com';
parent.session.receive(
{"to":"session", "do":"test", "text":"<\/script>"}
);
</script></head></html>
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JSML
JavaScript Message Language
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JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
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JSON was really useful
• Browser/server communication.• Interserver communication.• JSON database.
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Our customers said
• "Never heard of it."
• "Sorry, our company just committed to XML."
• "It is not a standard."
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I bought JSON.org
• A one-page web site that described JSON.
• Grammar three ways Simplified BNF Railroad diagrams Informal English
• A Java reference implementation.
• And then I retired.
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And that's all I did.
A message format in a bottle.
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Contributors
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Languages• ActionScript• C• C++• C#• ColdFusion• D• Delphi• E• Eiffel• Erlang• Fan• Flex• Haskell• haXe• Java• JavaScript• Lasso• Lisp• LotusScript• Lua
• Objective C• Objective CAML• OpenLaszlo• Perl• PHP• Pike• pl/sql• PowerShell• Prolog• Python• R• REALbasic• Rebol• Ruby• Scheme• Squeak• Tcl• Visual Basic• Visual FoxPro
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JSON is the intersection of modern programming
languages
• Simple values number string boolean
• Sequence of values array, vector, list
• Collection of named values object, record, struct, hash, property list
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Recursive descent value = function () {
// Parse a JSON value. It could be an object, an array,// a string, a number, or a word.
white(); switch (ch) { case '{': return object(); case '[': return array(); case '"': return string(); case '-': return number(); default: return ch >= '0' && ch <= '9' ? number() : word(); } };
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State Machinestate = 'go';stack = [];try { for (;;) { r = tx.exec(source); if (!r) { break; } if (r[1]) { action[r[1]][state](); } else if (r[2]) { value = +r[2]; number[state](); } else { value = debackslashify(r[3]); string[state](); } source = source.slice(r[0].length); }}
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Eval if (/^[\],:{}\s]*$/.test(text.replace( /\\(?:["\\\/bfnrt]|u[0-9a-fA-F]{4})/g, '@').replace(/"[^"\\\n\r]*"|true|false|null|-?\d+(?:\.\d*)?(?:[eE][+\-]?\d+)?/
g, ']'). replace(/(?:^|:|,)(?:\s*\[)+/g, ''))) {
// In the third stage we use the eval function to compile the // text into a JavaScript structure. The '{' operator is subject // to a syntactic ambiguity in JavaScript: it can begin a block // or an object literal. We wrap the text in parens to eliminate // the ambiguity.
j = eval('(' + text + ')');
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JSON.parse
• Part of ECMAScript, Fifth Edition• Available now in better browsers
everywhere.• Very fast. Very reliable.
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Languages
• Arabic • Bulgarian • Chinese • Czech • Dutch • French • German • Greek • Hebrew • Hungarian • Indonesian
• Italian • Japanese • Korean • Persian • Polish • Portuguese • Russian • Slovenian • Spanish • Turkish • Vietnamese
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Ajax!2005
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Improvements
• Removed comments. Dangerous practices Unnecessary complexity Alignment with YAML
• Added e notation to numbers.
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No version number.
• JSON will not be changed.• Stability is more important than any
feature we can think of.• Perhaps someday it will be replaced.
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Minimalism
It can fit on the back of a business card.
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Influences
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Lisp
S-expressions1958
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Rebol
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JavaScriptPython
NewtonScript
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NeXT
OpenStep Property Lists1993
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XML
The High Priced Spread
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HTML
Always bet on angle brackets.
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Ask not if it is good enough.Ask if it can be popular
enough.
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Maybe only something this simple could work.
John Seely Brown, April 2002
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Maybe only something this complicated could work.
2002
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XMLsucks.org
Why XML is technologically terrible, but you have to use it
anyway
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XML is the standard so shut up.
SHUT UP!
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XML Alternatives
• JSON config YAML CanonML HDF SSYN OGDL SDL DL Boulder ONX SMEL Property lists ConfigObj GroovyMarkup ATerms LNML GODDAG JITTs Esis/Pyxie ConciseXML SML TexMecs A specification language Waterken doc UBF Xqueeze Ool atx Grutatxt APT txt2docbook txt2tags AsciiDoc reStructuredText Epytext EtText AFT txt2html Setext Latte Confluence Markdown SmartyPants Textile Atox CDuce MarkupMatrix WikiMl IWML SEXP sfsexp Lambda markup language SXML Better markup tXML SOX SLiP ezex Tanga (NBML) XSLScript & TerseXML Lx NiceXSL PXSL ShoXS XSCS SML MIN MINML ESPX PXML GMarkup ASN BLOB SDXF CTX ASDL WDDX REBOL
• http://www.pault.com/pault/pxml/xmlalternatives.html
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Disruption
Threats
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It's not even XML!Who did this travesty?
Let's find a tree and string them up. Now.
Dave Winer, 2006-12-20
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any damn fool could produce a better data
format than XML
James Clark, 2007-04-06
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Use the right tool for the right job.
When your only tool is a wrench,
every problem looks like a nail.
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Where did the idea come from that data should be
represented by a document format?
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RUNOFF.SK 1Text processing and word processing systemstypically require additional information tobe interspersed among the natural text ofthe document being processed. This addedinformation, called "markup", serves twopurposes:.TB 4.OF 4.SK 11.#Separating the logical elements of thedocument; and.OF 4.SK 12.#Specifying the processing functions to beperformed on those elements..OF 0.SK 1
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GML :h1.Chapter 1: Introduction :p.GML supported hierarchical containers, such as :ol :li.Ordered lists (like this one), :li.Unordered lists, and :li.Definition lists :eol. as well as simple structures. :p.Markup minimization (later generalized and formalized in SGML), allowed the end-tags to be omitted for the "h1" and "p" elements.
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:eol.
::ol.
</ol>
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Brian Reid's Scribe
@Quote(Any damn fool)
( ) [ ] { } < > " " ' '
@Begin(Quote) Any damn fool@End(Quote)
1980
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Scribe
@techreport(PUB, key="Tesler", author="Tesler, Larry", title="PUB: The Document Compiler", year=1972, number="ON-72", month="Sep", institution="Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Project")
@book(Volume3, key="Knuth", author="Knuth, Donald E.", title="Sorting and Searching", publisher="Addison-Wesley",year=1973, volume=3,
series="The Art of Computer Programming", address="Reading, Mass.")
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License
The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
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I give permission to IBM, its customers, partners, and
minions, to use JSLint for evil.
Thanks very much, Douglas! Staff Attorney, IP Law
IBM Corporation
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The JSON Logo
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The Impossible Torus
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Ambihelical Hexnut
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www.JSON.org