JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lean data exchange format that is easy for humans to read and write and easy for machines to parse (analyse data structures) and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript programming language, standard ECMA-262 third edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely independent of programming languages, but follows many conventions familiar to programmers from the family of C-based languages (including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python and many others). These characteristics make JSON the ideal format for data exchange. JSON is based on two structures:
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