Beginning JSON

Beginning JSON is the definitive guide to JSON JavaScript Object Notation today’s standard in data formatting for the web. The book covers all areas of JSON from the basics of data formats to creating your own server to store and retrieve persistent data. Beginning JSON provides you with the skill set required for reading and writing properly validated JSON data. The book begins by discussing the foundations of JavaScript for those who need it, and provides the necessary understandings for later chapters. The core chapters uncover what data is, how to convert that data into a transmittable/storable format, how to use Ajax to send and receive JSON, and, lastly, how to reassemble that data back into a proper JavaScript value to be used by your program. The final chapters put everything you learned into practice. Here’s are just some of the highlights: