JSON is fine and dandy when it works well, but damned if it's missing a comma or the bloody keywords are quoted in the wrong characters.
I had a problem with some (assumingly) well formed JSON, but it kept puzzled me for hours when a jQuery AJAX post kept silently failing.
Eventually I stumbled upon jsonlint.com, a nifty site that simply validates your JSON and formats it for easy reading.
My example JSON:
{
'num_votes': 5,
'up': 4,
'down': -1
}
Can you spot what's wrong with it?
No? Neither could I... until I got fed up and changed the single quotes with double quotes for the hell of it.
AND IT BLOODY WORKED!
This is the now valid JSON:
{
"num_votes": 5,
"up": 4,
"down": -1
}
FML.
Oh well, back to it!
