What is the JSON Editor?

JSON Editor is an efficient way to edit, format, repair, compare, query, transform and validate JSON data.

JSON Editor offers two modes for viewing and editing: text mode and tree mode, both supporting syntax highlighting, code folding and braces matching. In addition, JSON Editor includes a node table that automatically detects elements.

Editing

The JSON Editor offers multiple editing modes and features to assist in managing your data effectively. It can act as either a standard text editor, similar to Notepad++, or provide special JSON formatting and structure validation services.

Text mode provides syntax coloring, line numbering, source folding and bookmarks to make editing and understanding the code you're working with easier. Additionally, this mode comes equipped with intelligent editing features like Content Completion Assistant and Outline view for enhanced editing experience.

JSON Editor is an invaluable tool for software developers. It enables them to easily query and modify JSON data in real-time while providing tools to detect and correct errors within its structure.

Tree and table views allow you to visually inspect nested structures while also verifying a document meets a specified schema. JSON Editor will notify you if any violations occur, so that you may manually edit your document to resolve it.

The advanced JSON editor allows you to write complex expressions that perform calculations and logic, making this feature particularly helpful if your custom field types require different formats for input; for instance, PDF submission fields might need to calculate values based on an additional input.

Formatting

Formatting JSON can make it more readable and accessible for humans as well as computers, our tool makes this task quick and simple by copy-pasting JSON files - it works on all browsers on all operating systems! Perfect for developers and data analysts working with API's that use JSON-based data structures!

This editor features JSON syntax highlighting that can be tailored to suit the user's personal preferences and habits, including setting the number of spaces used for indentation and tabs between lines of text. Furthermore, in addition to standard formatting features it also supports compact JSON formatting capabilities.

Recent additions include the capability of correcting common JSON errors. This includes fixing missing quotes, incorrect numeric keys and lowercase literals as well as comments or trailing commas. Please note: currently this feature can only be enabled on documents with valid schemas by going into Settings dialog's JSON Schema Mappings page and setting it there.

Comparing two JSON files can be an extremely useful feature of an editor, and is accomplished by opening both documents to be compared in its left and right panels. Once compared, tree view displays both documents to reveal any differences on data level (rather than text level); differences are highlighted based on data level highlighting, rather than object order differences which will remain ignored by this feature.

Schema validator

The JSON Schema Validator with JSON Editor automatically checks a JSON file's structure against that defined by a JSON Schema, checking that documents adhere to format rules specified by a schema such as quoting keys and detecting newlines. If an invalid document exists, its editor will point this out and offer to repair it if possible.

JSON Editor provides intelligent editing features to make JSON code reading and writing simpler, including syntax coloring, line numbering, source folding and bookmarks. In addition, there are various code highlighting schemes available as well as inline or expanded comments per element in your file.

JSON schema editors feature an innovative JSON Schema View which displays your schema definitions as a neat tree diagram, providing instantaneous insight into your data model. Furthermore, these views automatically update as you make changes to your schemas allowing easier navigation and interpretation of data structures.

JSON schema language support includes intelligent auto-completion that automatically displays available JSON Schema types and values, along with their default completion proposal including keywords from within that syntax. Hovering over each keyword displays its full specification text so you can better understand their purpose or meaning when writing JSON code.

Compare

An effective JSON compare and contrast tool is essential to ensure your data structures align. Comparing two JSON files can identify any changes such as additions, deletions or modifications introduced during development that might disrupt application consistency and require further investigation. Understanding these variations is necessary for troubleshooting purposes as well as application integrity maintenance.

Many modern IDEs provide tools to compare text files, but you need something more powerful when comparing JSON data. That is because a JSON document is more than a collection of objects and arrays; it contains information about their state and relationships. While other online tools only compare at text level, JSON Editor compares both its data as well as its structure; this allows it to quickly spot changes to objects, values, nested properties as well as visualize and navigate these changes more easily than competing tools do.

With JSON Editor, it's easy to compare two documents side-by-side and easily spot differences. Differences are easily identifiable thanks to red and green highlighted changes that make spotting differences easy. Furthermore, this advanced algorithm compares documents at their data level rather than text level, thus taking into account differences such as formatting differences or white space, ordering of object keys etc.