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Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor

Reputation: 13110

Should the name of an array of objects in json be pluralized or not

What is the convention,should array of objects in json be pluralized or not

i.e

{
    "releases": [
       {
           "id": "0b405ea7-8785-402f-bcf7-d55f5000dc3e",
           "title": "Wintertunes"
       },
       {
           "id": "7eb37a3a-646d-4501-a373-e9071186b88d",
           "title": "Adventure Magic Supreme Journey Music"
       }
    ],
}

versus

i.e

{
    "release": [
       {
           "id": "0b405ea7-8785-402f-bcf7-d55f5000dc3e",
           "title": "Wintertunes"
       },
       {
           "id": "7eb37a3a-646d-4501-a373-e9071186b88d",
           "title": "Adventure Magic Supreme Journey Music"
       }
    ],
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3463

Answers (2)

l33t
l33t

Reputation: 19966

I believe Google JSON Style Guide is a good source for this kind of doubt.

Arrays usually contain multiple items, and a plural property name reflects this.

Also, the strongest argument for the plural form would be the direct object mapping you get from JSON.parse(). You probably want your Javascript code to deal with pluralized array objects.

Though, in case you have a million such entries - with no compression - that extra 's' will for sure produce some significant bloat :P

Upvotes: 5

Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor

Reputation: 13110

In the absence of any strong opinion decided to pluralize it

Upvotes: 0

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