Role of JSON Metadata Files In Data Abstraction - json

I am in a position where I work with JSON Metadata files - I understand that they define field types and other attributes "Data about data" but I don't see the big picture yet about how they are used by the web application to abstract data that is to be transmitted. Can someone explain this to me?
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Is there a way to generate json data from json schema with multi source json data?

I am currently working with a project to implement data fusion / data integration. Now I can find the technology to get json schemas from json data. But how could I integrate different json attributes into the target json schema. My final target is to implement the json data fusion by configuration on a web page. Is there any solution or any open source implementation I could take referrence? Thank you so much.
Please allow me to explain it more clearly. I could define a target json schema, and its attributes should be filled by other json data's attributes (the json may come from multi source).

JSON - Validate Form Data

I used xml earlier and learning JSON now. To restrict the user to enter garbage values for form fields such as address etc, in XML we can define a complex object in schema file. But using JSON How can do that? JSON accepts any data from the user. Could any one please provide me ideas or an example code?
Thanks in Advance.
it is possible to do validation with schemas in JSON :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSON_Schema
depending on what you need to validate :
http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-validation.html
Online tool for testing :
http://www.jsonschema.net/

Export entire Logical Data Model from GoodData

In this https://developer.gooddata.com/article/data-modeling-api there is a logical data model and its corresponding JSON. However, I can't seem to find out how to extract JSON from a logical data model via the REST API. Is there a way to do this other than using the single load interface (which would be very inefficient)?
For the record, my end goal is to make a tool that extracts that JSON (which would be in dev), then post that to the ldm manager2, and then apply the suggested changes through the returned MaQL to production. Any help is greatly appreciated
Currently this works only for Getting or Updating the entire Project. Anyway you can GET all model definition by simple API call. See the documentation:
http://docs.gooddatadrafts.apiary.io/
There is a GET request which is asynchronous. You can build some logic on the top of that on your end. You can get all models, store per datasets information, but at the end you need to POST the "final version" and all updates will be applied.
Let me know if I can help you with anything!
Regards,
JT

Processing hugely varied JSON data from Facebook Graph API news feed

OK so I have authenticated fine and understand JSON including how to process it with PHP...
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
But my issues are that the JSON data that the API returns after hitting up FB...me/home end point is very varied. I understand that so is the data on a FB news stream but...
My end game is to show this info in a mash-up with other data but there seems no clear way of formatting it and each item in the JSON response is hugely different with different values. No consistent "item_type" : "photo / status update / message" that I could use to template it up into nicely formatted content blocks on the front end?
Any suggestions on the best way to process / style this type of vary varied JSON?
Thanks.
I would suggest checking out Google's gson library for parsing through JSON documents. Assuming that you are familiar with Java it makes it relatively easy to develop a custom parser that can adapt to documents stored under a flexible schema.
The library page is here. You can find the JsonReader documentation here.
Edit: It also might help to post some example documents so we can get a better idea of what kinds of results you're getting.

Best practices to produce JSON from NotesViews or DocumentCollections

I'm working on a custom control that will be fed by JSON content and I'm trying to find the best approach to produce and consume it.
Let say the JSON could be from:
Notes View (all documents)
Notes View (subset of documents based on a category or filter)
Notes Document Collection (from database.Search or database.FTSearch)
What I have on my mind is to define some Custom Properties where I can define:
URL that produces the JSON
Object
etc.
So far I'm considering:
REST Service control from ExtLib
XAgent that produces JSON
Domino URL ?ReadViewEntries and OutputFormat=JSON
Does anyone knows if the JSON object loaded in memory has a size limit?
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Definitely go for the REST Service control from the Extension Library, offers by far the best combination of flexibility vs performance vs development time.
Matt
What about creating the JSON in the view itself and then just read the column values? http://www.eknori.de/2011-07-23/formula-magic/
If you want to parse the json object using ssjs, you can fetch it using an URLConnection and put the resulting object into a repeat control using the eval statement.