How do you represent a JSON array of strings? - json

Question

This is all you need for valid JSON, right?
["somestring1", "somestring2"]

Answer 1

I'll elaborate a bit more on ChrisR awesome answer and bring images from his awesome reference.
A valid JSON always starts with either curly braces { or square brackets [, nothing else.
{ will start an object:
{ "key": value, "another key": value }
Hint: although javascript accepts single quotes ', JSON only takes double ones ".
[ will start an array:
[value, value]
Hint: spaces among elements are always ignored by any JSON parser.
And value is an object, array, string, number, bool or null:
So yeah, ["a", "b"] is a perfectly valid JSON, like you could try on the link Manish pointed.
Here are a few extra valid JSON examples, one per block:
{}
[0]
{"__comment": "json doesn't accept comments and you should not be commenting even in this way", "avoid!": "also, never add more than one key per line, like this"}
[{ "why":null} ]
{
"not true": [0, false],
"true": true,
"not null": [0, 1, false, true, {
"obj": null
}, "a string"]
}

Answer 2

Your JSON object in this case is a list. JSON is almost always an object with attributes; a set of one or more key:value pairs, so you most likely see a dictionary:
{ "MyStringArray" : ["somestring1", "somestring2"] }
then you can ask for the value of "MyStringArray" and you would get back a list of two strings, "somestring1" and "somestring2".

Answer 3

Basically yes, JSON is just a javascript literal representation of your value so what you said is correct.
You can find a pretty clear and good explanation of JSON notation on http://json.org/

Answer 4

String strJson="{\"Employee\":
[{\"id\":\"101\",\"name\":\"Pushkar\",\"salary\":\"5000\"},
{\"id\":\"102\",\"name\":\"Rahul\",\"salary\":\"4000\"},
{\"id\":\"103\",\"name\":\"tanveer\",\"salary\":\"56678\"}]}";
This is an example of a JSON string with Employee as object, then multiple strings and values in an array as a reference to #cregox...
A bit complicated but can explain a lot in a single JSON string.