Contents tagged with JSON Viewer
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I Pounce On The Pownce API
The microblogging site http://www.pownce.com/ has opened to the general public so I decided to give their API a try. But the main point of this blog post is to dispute the assertion that JSON is "easy for humans to read and write". It is not easy to read! JSON is a mess of curly braces, brackets, and quoted strings that is even more difficult to read than XML. I had considerable trouble working with the JSON data that Pownce provides because it seems to be nonstandard and requires the use of array indices which aren't usually needed. At first I tried to determine the data's object model by loading the XML version into XML Spy and finding the XPaths for a value. This was only slightly useful. Then I found a JSON Viewer on CodePlex which proved to be extremely helpful.