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Where do you put your comments in JSON files?
That doesn’t really work when you need two comments at the same level, since they’d both have the same key
write json with comments. Use a yaml parser.
If you’re reaching for yaml, why not use toml?
because of the cut and paste problem. It works in json.
Cut and paste problem?
cut out a random piece of your document. is it a partial or a complete document?
paste it somewhere else in the document. you have to fix the indentation because if not then the document won’t work or mean something completely different
you have to fix the indentation because if not then the document won’t work or mean something completely different
Whitespace has no meaning in json. You can indent however you want, or not at all.
I’m assuming you’re running into issues because you’re writing json in a yaml file which does care about indentation, and you’re only writing json in yaml to get access to comments.
In which case it circles back around to: why not use toml? Whitespace formatting doesn’t corrupt the file, and it has built in comments.
Every time i try to use toml, i end up going back to json
It still works since multiple identical keys are still valid json. Although that in itself isn’t fantastic imo.
For settings files I always have an example file with sensible values filled in and along with descriptive keys that serves as reasonable documentation. If something is truly unknowable, I’ve probably done something wrong.
How would you mark a flag in your json settings file as deprecated?
In my opinion, the settings file isn’t where this information should be presented. I would put these notes in the release log and readme and example settings file. I have also written this information to logging during startup so a user knows what to do, or I write a migration that does the change automatically if that’s possible.
This is only my opinion and you can use the comment method described like
“//“: “Deprecated”if desired.
