What is JSON?

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is a lightweight, language independent data interchange format.

How does JSON format looks like?

The format of JSON is as shown in the below code. It starts with a simple curly brackets, followed with comma separated value and pair and finally ending with a curly bracket.

The good part of JSON it just gets translated to javascript objects. For instance in the below figure you can see how the person variable has been transformed in to a person object with “FirstName” and “LastName” property.


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