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** properly-formatted json strings in the input are kept as-is (will either be [[JSON_STRING]], [[JSON_OBJECT]], or [[JSON_ARRAY]])  
** properly-formatted json strings in the input are kept as-is (will either be [[JSON_STRING]], [[JSON_OBJECT]], or [[JSON_ARRAY]])  
** all other strings encoded as [[JSON_STRING]]
** all other strings encoded as [[JSON_STRING]]
** Note in particular that strings containing valid JSON numbers are converted to JSON strings, not left as JSON numbers ({{Jira|BUG-6284}}). This differs to the treatment that [[llJsonSetValue]] gives to strings that contain JSON numbers, which leaves them as numbers.
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Revision as of 12:23, 9 June 2014

Summary

Function: string llList2Json( string type, list values );

This function takes a list and returns a JSON string of that list as either a json object or json array.
Returns a string that is either values serialized as a JSON type, or if an error was encountered JSON_INVALID.

• string type
• list values

To convert a json formatted string into a list use llJson2List.

Specification

See Json_usage_in_LSL

  • If type is JSON_OBJECT the list must be a strided list of key, value pairs and a string representing a json object will be returned.
  • If type is JSON_ARRAY then a string representing a json array will be returned.
  • If type is any other string then JSON_INVALID will be returned.
  • Json types from the input list are inferred from the LSL data type

Type Flags Value Unicode Integer URL Encoded HTML Encoded Description
JSON_INVALID U+FDDO 64976 "%EF%B7%90"  Value returned when inputs are not well formed.
JSON_OBJECT U+FDD1 64977 "%EF%B7%91" 
JSON_ARRAY U+FDD2 64978 "%EF%B7%92" 

Caveats

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Examples

See Also

Constants

•  JSON_ARRAY
•  JSON_OBJECT
•  JSON_INVALID

Functions

•  llJson2List
•  llJsonGetValue
•  llJsonSetValue
•  llJsonValueType

Articles

•  Typecast

Deep Notes

History

Date of Release 20/05/2013

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Signature

function string llList2Json( string type, list values );

Haiku

Their ships list to port
for what reason I know not
we list to JSON

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cryptically my sensei said
I must have misheard