Comment on What is the best file format for configuration file?

simonced@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Of course it does!

  {
    comment: "This data is super important and it runs the system or something",
    data: ["Some", "stuff", "here"]
  }
  

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  • noli@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You disgust me

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  • sfera@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you comment multiple properties separately?

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    • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Please don’t actually do this. Comment stuff in the code and documentation, not the JSON.

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      • sfera@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t worry, I wouldn’t do things like this in JSON. Nevertheless, it can be very useful to have comments along with configuration values, for example to explain the actual values (not their purpose) and why they were chosen. That’s information you can’t add to the code which processes the values.

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  • simonced@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is actually pretty genius, why haven’t ever thought of that?

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    • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s so easy to use, and you can read the comments from in your program too!

      ^(in case you weren’t just playing along, please never do comments this way)

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      • simonced@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I liked the idea to be honest. I can just call the entry “description” instead and all is good ^^

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• kersplort@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  JSON5 is a superset of JSON that supports comments.

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• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I believe the JSON deserializer .NET ships with has options to allow C#-style comments in JSON files.

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• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  json with comments can be parsed by a yaml parser. It’s how I write yaml, in fact (yaml is a superset of json. any valid json is valid yaml, but it also supports comments)

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