Readable JSON about reststop2 HOT 6 CLOSED

Yeah the format is correct. To make it easier to read, try a JSON formatted
extension, like this one:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcjindcccaagfpapjjmafapmmgkkhgoa?hl=en

Postman is quite popular:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm?hl=en

Cheers.

On Friday, March 14, 2014, Scott Deeter [email protected] wrote:

I am working on getting an API going for my app and have managed to get an
endpoint successfully returning JSON. The problem is, it appears to be
serialized--all the line breaks and newlines have been stripped from it. Is
there a way to get it to output more-readable JSON?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/12
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I submitted the pull request #13 as an idea to have reststop2 output pretty out of the box. Maybe this could even be a setting, but I don't know how to handle settings for Meteor smart packages.

I based this on the way github's API prettifies JSON output with 2 space indentions.
See example: https://api.github.com/events

Thanks for considering the pull request.

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duh, I realized reststop2 already has some settings. I added 'pretty_json' as a new setting in the existing pull request.

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Thanks @shrop for the PR. Merged this in. Should make it in next release.

I've defaulted pretty_json to false. This is a bit of personal opinion, but I don't think results should be formatted for humans, since they're intended for machines. For the paranoid, formatting adds unnecessary data in the form of carriage returns and spaces to the response. I believe it burden should be on the human to make it readable, by using an extension (or now setting the config).

Cheers.

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Excellent! I defaulted it to false and forgot to push that up. I totally agree. Thanks!

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Fantastic! Thanks for sorting this out.

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