JavaScript Object Notation

JSON is a syntax that allows you to encode arbitrary complex data structures into plain text. See structures for the related PSYC variable type.

Here goes: http://www.json.org.

Shouldn't it be named EcmaScript Object Notation (ESON) or even LiveScript Object Notation (LSON) instead?

See Wikipedia:JSON-RPC and What links here for more.

JSON is used in some places as an intermediate solution until we have better support for binary data, but it has been determined as unsuitable for PSYC in general, as it has too many escaping rules that are just overhead within the framework of PSYC.

See also

RPC.