[Gmod-ajax] Jbrowse JSON files that are not JSON.

[Martin A. H. <ma...@ma...>]

Hello,


I am wondering why Jbrowse files like refSeqs.js and trackInfo.js are not in
JSON format, but rather have a variable name, an equal sign, and then, on
the following lines, a block of JSON code:

refSeqs =
[
   {
      "length" : 50001,
      "name" : "ctgA",
      "seqDir" : "data/seq/ctgA",
      "seqChunkSize" : 20000,
      "end" : 50001,
      "start" : 0
   }
]

Why not encode the entire thing in JSON?

{
   "refSeqs" : [
      {
         "length" : 50001,
         "name" : "ctgA",
         "seqDir" : "data/seq/ctgA",
         "start" : 0,
         "end" : 50001,
         "seqChunkSize" : 20000
      }
   ]
}


Below is a little test.



Cheers,


Martin



#!/usr/bin/env perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;

my ( $json, $data );

local $/ = undef;

$json = <DATA>;

$data = JSON::from_json( $json );

print Dumper( $data );

__DATA__
{
   "refSeqs" : [
      {
         "length" : 50001,
         "name" : "ctgA",
         "seqDir" : "data/seq/ctgA",
         "start" : 0,
         "end" : 50001,
         "seqChunkSize" : 20000
      }
   ]
}