Geany / Feature Requests / #745 Support for JSON

Colomban Wendling - 2014-11-26

What do you mean by "does not appear to parse correctly in Geany 1.23.1"?
If I put this snippet in Geany (from Git, latest dev version) and set the filetype to JavaScript it highlight and folds just fine (which is expeced as IIUC JSON is a strict subset of JavaScript grammar).

But no, it doesn't generate a symbol list (nor does it for YAML data BTW). This could be fixed by writing a CTags parser for JSON (and to my basic understanding of the format I believe it should be pretty trivial), but this also means adding a builtin filetype to Geany, so a little more work.

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Colomban Wendling - 2014-11-27

I fixed the wiki page to propose a working filetype file

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beatboxa - 2014-11-27

Thanks for the update here and in the wiki!

Using JavaScript as the filetype doesn't appear to identify the arrays properly. For example, if you go to the jsontoyaml.com site I listed, convert the default JSON example to YAML, and paste the YAML into Geany, Geany correctly identifies an array called 'baz' (which you can hide or expand with the "+" button.

Pasting in the equivalent JSON and selecting javascript doesn't appear to identify 'baz' as an array that can be expanded. Only the outermost '{}' brackets are recognized as containing an array.

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- Lex Trotman - 2014-11-27
  
  Javascript doesn't fold on arrays, only on {} since that is the block
  construct in Javascript, but since JSON is Javascript it highlights
  properly.
  
  YAML folds on both {} and [] (at least in the example you linked to)
  but doesn't highlight since JSON isn't YAML.
  
  Cheers
  Lex
  
  On 27 November 2014 at 13:26, arslaan beatboxa@users.sf.net wrote:
  
  Thanks for the update here and in the wiki!
  
  Using JavaScript as the filetype doesn't appear to identify the arrays
  properly. For example, if you go to the jsontoyaml.com site I listed,
  convert the default JSON example to YAML, and paste the YAML into Geany,
  Geany correctly identifies an array called 'baz' (which you can hide or
  expand with the "+" button.
  
  Pasting in the equivalent JSON and selecting javascript doesn't appear to
  identify 'baz' as an array that can be expanded. Only the outermost '{}'
  brackets are recognized as containing an array.
  
  [feature-requests:#745] Support for JSON
  
  Status: open
  Group: v1.25
  Labels: filetype json yaml filedefs
  Created: Sun Nov 23, 2014 06:15 PM UTC by arslaan
  Last Updated: Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:48 AM UTC
  Owner: nobody
  
  Feature request for support of JSON data (including condensed JSON). May be
  able to port quickly from YAML.
  
  Here is a valid condensed JSON record that does not appear to parse
  correctly in Geany 1.23.1 on Ubuntu 14.04:
  {"foo": "bar","baz": ["qux","quxx"],"corge": null,"grault":1,"garply":
  true,"waldo": "false","fred":"undefined","emptyArray": [],"emptyObject":
  {},"emptyString": ""}
  
  I've followed the wiki here (including the both the YAML lexer and the
  Javascript lexer):
  http://wiki.geany.org/config/json
  
  But this does not appear to parse JSON properly, particularly when
  condensed--possibly due to slightly different parsing between YAML and JSON.
  
  For the purposes of sample data for testing and comparing, these sites may
  be useful:
  http://jsontoyaml.com/
  http://yamltojson.com/
  
  Thanks in advance; and please let me know how I can contribute to this
  effort!
  
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  - Colomban Wendling - 2014-11-27
    
    YAML folds on both {} and [] (at least in the example you linked to) […]
    
    Actually YAML folds on indentation only, so if it did with this example is only because it was indented like YAML requires.
    
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  - beatboxa - 2014-11-27
    
    Correct, but what I am asking for is support for JSON specifically, not Javascript in general (which already appears to work fine). So a JSON file should fold appropriately, since JSON is not 100% the same as Javascript.
    
    Actually, I guess the ask would be 'folding on arrays in the condensed version of any markup language' if YAML also does not fold in condensed version.
    
    Today, I use a browser extension to browse and alter JSON's (including condensed version JSON with nested arrays). This extension can fold and unfold arrays and makes it very easy to explore and alter JSON's. I just thought it would be great if Geany could support this as well in a way that's practical for users, which would include the ability to fold and unfold arrays at different grains.
    
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    - Lex Trotman - 2014-11-27
      
      On 28 November 2014 at 01:29, arslaan beatboxa@users.sf.net wrote:
      
      Correct, but what I am asking for is support for JSON specifically, not
      Javascript in general (which already appears to work fine). So a JSON file
      should fold appropriately, since JSON is not 100% the same as Javascript.
      
      You need to add a lexer for Json to the editing component Scintilla
      which is a separate project (www.scintilla.org). Then it can be used
      in Geany.
      
      Cheers
      Lex
      
      Actually, I guess the ask would be 'folding on arrays in the condensed
      version of any markup language' if YAML also does not fold in condensed
      version.
      
      Today, I use a browser extension to browse and alter JSON's (including
      condensed version JSON with nested arrays). This extension can fold and
      unfold arrays and makes it very easy to explore and alter JSON's. I just
      thought it would be great if Geany could support this as well in a way
      that's practical for users, which would include the ability to fold and
      unfold arrays at different grains.
      
      [feature-requests:#745] Support for JSON
      
      Status: open
      Group: v1.25
      Labels: filetype json yaml filedefs
      Created: Sun Nov 23, 2014 06:15 PM UTC by arslaan
      Last Updated: Thu Nov 27, 2014 03:26 AM UTC
      Owner: nobody
      
      Feature request for support of JSON data (including condensed JSON). May be
      able to port quickly from YAML.
      
      Here is a valid condensed JSON record that does not appear to parse
      correctly in Geany 1.23.1 on Ubuntu 14.04:
      {"foo": "bar","baz": ["qux","quxx"],"corge": null,"grault":1,"garply":
      true,"waldo": "false","fred":"undefined","emptyArray": [],"emptyObject":
      {},"emptyString": ""}
      
      I've followed the wiki here (including the both the YAML lexer and the
      Javascript lexer):
      http://wiki.geany.org/config/json
      
      But this does not appear to parse JSON properly, particularly when
      condensed--possibly due to slightly different parsing between YAML and JSON.
      
      For the purposes of sample data for testing and comparing, these sites may
      be useful:
      http://jsontoyaml.com/
      http://yamltojson.com/
      
      Thanks in advance; and please let me know how I can contribute to this
      effort!
      
      Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in
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Colomban Wendling - 2014-11-27

You need to add a lexer for Json to the editing component Scintilla
which is a separate project (www.scintilla.org). Then it can be used
in Geany.

Or just add support for folding on [], this should be trivial to add to LexCPP. I didn't really checked what consequence it'd have but I doubt it's be a problem with another language it supports, can probably be interesting in other languages this lexer support that use [] as array literals, and can always be controlled by a lexer property if needed.

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- Colomban Wendling - 2014-11-27
  
  Patch submitted to upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1087/
  
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beatboxa - 2014-11-29

Gotcha...Thanks for the recommendations and for submitting the patch / patch request!

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Colomban Wendling - 2015-07-23

status: open --> closed-fixed
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Colomban Wendling - 2015-07-23

Implemented in 1.25

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