Javascript: How to generate formatted easy-to-read JSON straight from an object?

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> Possible Duplicate:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2614862/how-can-i-beautify-json-programmatically

I know how to generate JSON from an object using JSON.stringify, or in my case the handy jquery-json from google code (https://github.com/krinkle/jquery-json).

Now this works fine, but the output is hard to read for humans. Is there an easy way / function / whatever to output a neatly formatted json file?

This is what I mean:

JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}); 

gives..

"{"a":1,"b":2,"c":{"d":1,"e":[1,2]}}"

I'd like something like this instead:

{
 "a":1,
 "b":2,
 "c":{
    "d":1,
    "e":[1,2]
 }
}

E.g. with newlines and tabs added. It's much easier to read for larger documents.

I'd like to do this ideally without adding any huge libraries - e.g. not prototype or YUI or whatever.

Javascript Solutions


Solution 1 - Javascript

JSON.stringify takes more optional arguments.

Try:

 JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, 4); // Indented 4 spaces
 JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, "\t"); // Indented with tab

From:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2614862/json-beautifier

Should work in modern browsers, and it is included in json2.js if you need a fallback for browsers that don't support the JSON helper functions. For display purposes, put the output in a <pre> tag to get newlines to show.

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