Open-source, JavaScript JSON HTML viewer released(ajaxstack.com)

Open-source, JavaScript JSON HTML viewer released

http://ajaxstack.com/jsonreport/

9 comments

nirmal15 anni fa

When I first started interacting with APIs that use JSON I wanted a JS library to automatically convert a JSON structure into, hopefully semantically correct, HTML which I could then easily style with CSS. At the time I couldn't find anything but I did write a simple piece of JS. I show an example of how I used it to style tweets on my site: http://nirmalpatel.com/json2posh/

mcantelon15 anni fa

Another Javascript-driven JSON viewer (that also allows editing):

http://www.thomasfrank.se/json_editor.html

beaumartinez15 anni fa

My go-to JSON viewer: http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/

mattezell15 anni fa

Very nice. I am writing a couchapp and think this will work nicely as a report-generator. Thanks!

mythz15 anni fa

You're welcome :)

moderation15 anni fa

I like http://jsbeautifier.org/

irfn15 anni fa

that is different thing altogether. You are comparing apples and Oranges.

y0ghur7_xxx15 anni fa

How is this different from all the javascript template engines like ejs[1], jQuery.tmpl(), jQuote2[2] or one of the many others?

[1]http://embeddedjs.com/

[2]http://aefxx.com/jquery-plugins/jqote2/

edit: Now I understand. This one generates the report automagically, no need to create a HTML template for the JSON data.

mythz15 anni fa

Yeah, it's just a way to better visualize your JSON data so it becomes more readable in a glance.

regularfry15 anni fa

Is there a JSON microformat for marking strings as URLs which the user agent should be able to follow? 'Cos that's all that's missing from making this sort of thing a generic REST client.

mythz15 anni fa

I think it's rare to see JSON HyperMedia data formats in the wild, XML seems the preferred choice due to its use of attributes for metadata annotation.

Here's on of the few examples I've found that uses JSON: http://restafari.blogspot.com/2010/10/evolving-hal.html

mythz15 anni fa

Although I dislike the use of XML in Ajax/SPA applications and very much side with Douglas Crockford in the JSON vs XML debate :) http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Heretical-Open-Source

apu15 anni fa

Perhaps you could do some simple detection if a given field is a url (i.e., using a regexp) and auto-link it in the generated reports?

regularfry15 anni fa

That won't work reliably with relative links. It also lacks any kind of link annotation (so, is this linked resource a "parent"? A "child"? Metadata? And so on).

regularfry15 anni fa

There's also this: http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/json which looks interesting enough to bookmark.

vivekjishtu15 anni fa

There is a bug while parsing http://reddit.com/.json It is unable to render it.

mythz15 anni fa

Ok, fixed a null ref bug. http://reddit.com/.json now works, just a little ugly

jrockway15 anni fa

I couldn't even get it to accept:

{"OH HAI":[{"foo":42, "bar":123}, {"foo":123, "bar":456}]}

thwarted15 anni fa

This:

    {"foo":42, "bar",123}

isn't even a valid JSON object. If you make it valid JSON and replace the comma in this with a colon, it accepts it.

jrockway15 anni fa

That was an HN typo, as I had already closed the window where I typed the JSON.

smarterchild15 anni fa

I've used/loved http://chris.photobooks.com/json/default.htm since the beginning of time for debugging. It isn't embeddable, though I find that it's more readable.

irfn15 anni fa

Awesome piece of work! I am definitely gonna use this when i get a chance.