How do you represent a JSON array of strings?

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This is all you need for valid JSON, right?

["somestring1", "somestring2"]

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Solution 1 - Json

I'll elaborate a bit more on ChrisR awesome answer and bring images from his awesome reference.

A valid JSON always starts with either curly braces { or square brackets [, nothing else.

{ will start an object:

left brace followed by a key string (a name that can't be repeated, in quotes), colon and a value (valid types shown below), followed by an optional comma to add more pairs of string and value at will and finished with a right brace

{ "key": value, "another key": value }

> Hint: although javascript accepts single quotes ', JSON only takes double ones ".

[ will start an array:

left bracket followed by value, optional comma to add more value at will and finished with a right bracket

[value, value]

> Hint: spaces among elements are always ignored by any JSON parser.

And value is an object, array, string, number, bool or null:

Image showing the 6 types a JSON value can be: string, number, JSON object, Array/list, boolean, and null

So yeah, ["a", "b"] is a perfectly valid JSON, like you could try on the link Manish pointed.

Here are a few extra valid JSON examples, one per block:

{}

[0]

{"__comment": "json doesn't accept comments and you should not be commenting even in this way", "avoid!": "also, never add more than one key per line, like this"}

[{   "why":null} ]

{
  "not true": [0, false],
  "true": true,
  "not null": [0, 1, false, true, {
    "obj": null
  }, "a string"]
}

Solution 2 - Json

Your JSON object in this case is a list. JSON is almost always an object with attributes; a set of one or more key:value pairs, so you most likely see a dictionary:

{ "MyStringArray" : ["somestring1", "somestring2"] }

then you can ask for the value of "MyStringArray" and you would get back a list of two strings, "somestring1" and "somestring2".

Solution 3 - Json

Basically yes, JSON is just a javascript literal representation of your value so what you said is correct.

You can find a pretty clear and good explanation of JSON notation on http://json.org/

Solution 4 - Json

String strJson="{\"Employee\":
[{\"id\":\"101\",\"name\":\"Pushkar\",\"salary\":\"5000\"},
{\"id\":\"102\",\"name\":\"Rahul\",\"salary\":\"4000\"},
{\"id\":\"103\",\"name\":\"tanveer\",\"salary\":\"56678\"}]}";

This is an example of a JSON string with Employee as object, then multiple strings and values in an array as a reference to @cregox...

A bit complicated but can explain a lot in a single JSON string.

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