JSON GUI creator/editor

Question

Hi,

I'm using text files in JSON format as input to my java/perl programs.

I would like to allow novice users to generate such JSON files themselves, following some template. Is there some GUI that allows easy, step-by-step creation of a JSON file?

It should allow filling in fields with text, choosing file locations etc. Also note the input format is not totally fixed - for example there are a couple of arrays where the number of elements can be chosen by the user, so the GUI should account for this flexibility too.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I am not sure this one supports templates, but it is pretty feature rich:

http://www.thomasfrank.se/json_editor.html

I think the source code is available for it, so you can easily extend it to allow templates if needed. The "Template" stuff sounds like you want a "JSON DTD" - here's a neat proposal:

http://groups.google.com/group/json-schema/web/json-schema-proposal---second-draft

Another interesting JSON editor:

http://jsoneditor.appspot.com/

Answer 2

Generally when I want to create a JSON or YAML string, I start out by building the Perl data structure, and then running a simple conversion on it. You could put a UI in front of the Perl data structure generation, e.g. a web form.

Converting a structure to JSON is very straightforward:

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::Any;

my $data = { arbitrary structure in here };
my $json_handler = JSON::Any->new(utf8=>1);
my $json_string = $json_handler->objToJson($data);

Answer 3

Hi David,

Thirst, thanks for using www.jsonpad.co.cc :)

Second, i'm realy not sure how you would have that form for filling in. Or what you understand under templates @ jsonpad.

But if you could explain me a bit better what you want, i could implement it into JSONpad. Please contact me again on my contact page at the link above, sry i did not got your mail, cause i made a very very stupid mistake in my contact form >.<

greetz, Chris