What is JavaScript Object Notation ?

Cybersecurity with a dose of psychology and soft skills! Security Awareness✅️ OWASP TOP 10 ✅️ CyberSec Tools ✅️ Windows ✅️ Linux ✅️ Networks ✅️

JSON types:

As we know if JSON is a data representation format so we need to be able to represent a certain data types within it and JSON natively supports:

strings

numbers

booleans

null

arrays

objects

An object is the most complex but most used type within JSON and it allows you to represent values that are key value pairs so you give it a key and then a value.

Most of the time when you're working with JSON you'll have either an array or an object as your top level of your file and then inside of that array or object you'll have other values so it may even have other objects have other arrays.

Let's take an example of a user object that we want to put at the top level of our JSON file. To create an object we need to use opening and closing curly braces and then inside of that we'll put all of the key value pairs that make up our object. The key must be surrounded by double quotes followed by a colon. If we have multiple key value pairs we need commas separating every single one of our key value pairs similarly to how we would create an array in a normal programming language.

{ "userId": 1, "id": 1, "title": "delectus aut autem", "completed": false }

Why is JSON so popular?

JSON has become especially popular with API code and web service developers because it speeds up data exchange and getting web service results. It is a text-based format that is lightweight and easy to parse and requires no additional coding to perform such parsing. For web services, JSON is an excellent choice because large amounts of data must be returned and displayed.

What is JSON?

Comments

More from this blog

Don't make life easier for thieves. How to protect your online listings?

What do I do when I'm bored? A few words about Bug Bounty!

Outgunned in cybersecurity: Are we fighting a losing battle?

The Power of Influence and Manipulation: Decoding Social Engineering

Journey through Cybersecurity: Mastering Fundamental Network Tools for Troubleshooting Reconnaissance and Attack!

Used for API's

JSON types:

Why is JSON so popular?

Command Palette

Comments

More from this blog

Used for API's

JSON types:

Why is JSON so popular?