JSON formatting?

[Justin Leavens]

Is there an option or plugin in BBEdit to reformat a JSON document
like there is for HTML (using the Markup:Utilities:Format option)?

Thanks in advance.

[Charlie Garrison]

Good afternoon,

On 30/07/10 at 6:16 PM -0700, Justin Leavens
<jlea...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Is there an option or plugin in BBEdit to reformat a JSON document
>like there is for HTML (using the Markup:Utilities:Format option)?

JSON is basically just javascript data, so a javascript
formatter should work. A quick google search shows a few JSON
formatters as well:

<http://www.google.com/search?q=JSON%20format>

I seem to recall a BBEdit filter which formatted code via an
online site for another language (can't recall which one). You
can probably use that as a guide for writing filter to format
JSON via one of the online solutions.

You could also use (eg) a perl module in a filter to format:

<http://search.cpan.org/~miki/Hoppy-0.01005/lib/Hoppy/Formatter/JSON.pm>
<http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-2.21/lib/JSON.pm>

I have no idea though what the resulting data looks like from a
tool like that.

Charlie

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