# JSON
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/, /ˈd͡ʒeɪsɑn/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/
* (humorous, by creator) IPA: /ˈʒəˌsɔ̃/
* Rhymes: -eɪsən, (General American) -eɪsɑn
* Homophone: Jason

### Proper noun

JSON
* (computer languages, file format) Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation, a data format used to represent structured data. It is based on JavaScript syntax.
    Coordinate terms: XML, YAML

#### Derived terms

* JSOND
* JSONP
* JWT

### Noun

JSON (plural JSONs)
* A JSON document.
** 2012, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, “Server Setup”, in Pushing the Limits with iOS 5 Programming: Advanced Application Development for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, →ISBN, part III (The Right Tool for the Job), chapter 14 (Selling Past the Sale with In App Purchases), “Introduction to MKStoreKit” section, “Customizing MKStoreKit” subsection, page 274:The default implementation of featureCheck.php returns plain strings—YES or NO—based on whether the receipts are valid or not. You might need to modify it to return in JSONs along with the URL of the content location.
** 2013 August, Debarchan Sarkar, “Big Data – what’s the big deal?”, in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop: Integrate Data between Apache Hadoop and SQL Server 2012 and Provide Business Intelligence on the Heterogeneous Data, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 1 (Introduction to Big Data and Hadoop), page 6:The variety of data is increasing. It's all getting stored and nearly 85 percent of new data is unstructured data. The data can be in the form of tweets, JSONs with variable attributes and elements of which users may want to process selective ones.
** 2014, Nuno M.C. da Costa, Tiago Araujo, Neuza Nunes, Hugo Gamboa, “Knowledge Acquisition System based on JSON Schema for Electrophysiological Actuation”, in Mohammad S[alameh] Obaidat, Joaquim Filipe, editors, E-Business and Telecommunications: International Joint Conference, ICETE 2012, Rome, Italy, July 24–27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science; 455), Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN, “Wireless Information Networks and Systems” section, pages 289 and 291:[…] APIs and low-level software infrastructures in JavaScript enable the transformation of the information acquired from the user in a JSON data structure defined by the Schemas, then the data (JSONs and Schemas) is stored in the server and retrieved to the client (JavaScript) through websockets (full-duplex communications channels over a single TCP connection); […] Source Editor: an editor to upload or create JSONs, where the user writes the JSON (like the JSONs exported in Fig. 5 or copy and paste the JSON in the editor. JSONs are valid and can be saved if they agree with JSON Schema, if not, reports with errors are generated.
** 2014 August, Sergey Popov, “JSON injection/JavaScript injections”, in Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform: Fuse Together Your Pragmatic Oracle Experience with Abstract SOA Patterns with This Pratical Guide, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Gotcha! Implementing Security Layers), “Where are we now?” section, page 411:Imagine your service accepts the JSON documents (or constructs them based on user input) and stores them for public use. For big and bulky JSONs, you would dedicate a NoSQL database, hoping that NoSQL means NoSQL injections.

### References

* ↑ "Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga" at 7:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&t=7m40s

### Further reading

* JSON on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Snoj