#6 Formater removes spaces inside single quote strings

[xavier]

Example: {text:'A simple test'} becomes
{
text: 'Asimpletest'
}

[xavier]

Single quotes should be treated in the same way as double quotes.

[modernskyangel]

But JSON specification said that string should use only double quote. And parameter name should use quotes for name too. For this input parser must return error at second character. I understand that this string is valid JSON object for JavaScript, but other languages and parsers is more strict, and will produce an error because bad syntax.

[xavier]

I agree that the strict application of the specification requires both properties and data to be quoted.
However many leading Javascript APIs (e.g. ExtJs/Sencha Touch) allow for a more relaxed interpretation of the specification.

For instance in Javascript the following is valid:

{
    myFunction: function(msg){
        alert(msg);
    },
    myData: [
        "O'Donald",
        'a "string"',
        7
    ],
    'more':"data",
    "and-again": {hello:"world"}
}

I have yet to find a formatter that works correctly with such applications.

It would be very nice if your plugin did! In fact I suspect that your plugin would become very popular!

[Kapil Ratnani]

Formatter doesn't checks for syntax errors before formatting. I think you are trying to format a JS object defined in code here. I am thinking whether to fix it or not..

[Kapil Ratnani]

Well, i just went through json.org

"JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others."

The plugin is meant for JSON data-interchange format not Javascript. The above thing is more of a job for a Javascript code formatter rather than a JSON Formatter. May be i should do a check for syntax errors before formatting(but that will make things too slow).

[xavier]

You have a good point: I should have been looking for a Javascript formatter plugin.

The JSMinNPP (http://jsminnpp.sourceforge.net/download.php) seems to be doing the job.