This article is part of a series. See also…
• Thinking About JSON, part 1
• Thinking About JSON, part 3
• Thinking About JSON, part 4
This is a follow up to Thinking About JSON, part 1. Last time we were primarily concerned with learning about JSON paths and structures, and reading JSON. This time around we’re going to look at creating and manipulating JSON.
Demo file: winery-json.zip
(If the above screen shot looks familiar you have a good memory, because today’s demo is based on the one that accompanied this article: Summary List Fields in FM 13.)
To briefly recap, JSON is built on two structures…
- Objects: surrounded by {} and consisting of comma-separated key:value pairs
Simple example: { “product” : “FileMaker Pro” , “version” : 17 } - Arrays: surrounded by [] and consisting of comma-separated values
Simple example: [ 2 , 4 , 6 ]
…and where things get interesting is that the “values” in either of the above structures can themselves be JSON (i.e., an object or an array). This defining feature of JSON, whereby a JSON structure can, and frequently does, contain embedded smaller JSON structures, was explored in detail in part 1, and we will see some examples of this today as well. Continue reading “Thinking About JSON, part 2”