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Cmag
Cmag

Reputation: 15750

javascript JSON response formatting

Folks, Trying to understand returning and forming JSON responses.

The following code returns the object as a single string:

res.send(JSON.stringify(data));

Output to the browser:

{"Count":1,"Items":[{"dbsource":{"S":"x"},"number":{"S":"5002820"},"name":{"S":"blah,foo"},"expiration":{"S":"06/13/2015"},"type":{"S":"bar"}}]}

Dont I want the JSON output to be more readable, ie :

{
"one": "two",
"key": "value"
}

What should i change JSON.stringify(data) to? Ideally I want the response to be used as an API endpoint.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 284

Answers (1)

Sorter
Sorter

Reputation: 10210

You are almost there. Use stringify with spaces 

var str = JSON.stringify(data, undefined, 2);

The above string will have indentation with 2 spaces.

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/stringify

Upvotes: 2

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