Official JSON formats

Question

Hi everyone,

I would like to know where can I find the real official JSON formats with versions.
Is there a real standard somewhere?
Does ESRI uses that standard? 
Where can I find the official ESRI JSON formats?
What standard does JSON.stringify() uses?

I have found it very difficult to find reliable information on this.

BTW:
My problem is that I'm trying to call a geoprocessing service on ArcGIS 10.0, but the translation from my javascript FeatureSet to JSON is not proper to what the greopressing service expect. In the request, the input has a different format and has empty values.
Service I'm trying to call : http://oxpgisws01d.env.gov.ab.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services/IWCP/IWCP/GPServer/PointsLocationValidation

Thanks

JeffPace1 · Answer

Jeff, here's Douglas Crockford's comment on why he removed comments from JSON: https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr

-Andy

THanks for the link.  IT really isnt a big deal, more of just a watershed moment when "why is my json always invalid" is oh - no comments allowed!!

AndyGup · Answer

Jeff, here's Douglas Crockford's comment on why he removed comments from JSON: https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr

-Andy

JeffPace1 · Answer

i use http://json.org/ and the validator at http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ So far pretty straight forward, only surprise was that comments are not supported! You cannot have //comments in json you need to actually add a comments key:value pair Hi, so far I didn't find any real Official JSON format (if that exist). I've found the ESRI JSON input format expected by a geoprocessing service for ArcGIS 10.0. http://help.arcgis.com/EN/arcgisserver/10.0/apis/rest/index.html So I know exactly what the geoprocessing service expects. I've also seen how a featureSet should be sent to a geoprocessing service through the submitJob function of the esri.tasks.Geoprocessor. http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jsapi_start.htm#jsapi/geoprocessor.htm My problem is to figure out, where does that geoprocessor find its toJson function for a featureSet. ESRI says that the format expected should be some like this :{ "geometryType" : "esriGeometryPoint", "spatialReference" : {"wkid" : 4326}, "features" : [ { "geometry" : {"x" : -104.44, "y" : 34.83}, "attributes" : {"Id" : 43, "Name" : "Feature 1"} }, { "geometry" : {"x" : -100.65, "y" : 33.69}, "attributes" : {"Id" : 67, "Name" : "Feature 2"} } ] } But then, the geoprocessor object create the JSON from my featureSet like this:{ "fields":[], "geometryType":"esriGeometryPoint", "features":[ { "geometry":{"x":678731.422659788,"y":6221057.36591139,"spatialReference":{"wkid":3400}}, "attributes":{"ID":0,"NAME":"Main Camp","TYPE":"Permanent","LATITUDE":"56.123456","LONGITUDE":"-112.12345678","LOCAT_VALID":"Valid","isAlone":true} } ], "sr":{"wkid":3400} } Althought the JSON.stringify() method give me this :{ "features":[ { "geometry":{"type":"point","x":678731.422659788,"y":6221057.36591139,"spatialReference":{"wkid":3400}}, "symbol":null, "attributes":{"ID":0,"NAME":"Main Camp","TYPE":"Permanent","LATITUDE":"56.123456","LONGITUDE":"-112.12345678","LOCAT_VALID":"Valid","isAlone":true}, "infoTemplate":{"title":"Main Camp","content":"Latitude: 56.123456
Longitude: -112.12345678"} } ], "geometryType":"esriGeometryPoint", "spatialReference":{"wkid":3400} } I've tried to call the service from the rest end point with both JSON featureSet and I found out why the JSON object created by the geoprocessor does not work. It simply that, as you can notice, the spatial reference from the geoprocessor is noted as "sr":{"wkid":3400} while form the stringify method it is noted as "spatialReference":{"wkid":3400} which is the expected format. I'm wondering if this is normal and there is just something I'm missing, or is it simply a bug from esri.tasks.geoprocessor. That is why I'd like to know what does the esri.tasks.geoprocessor uses for the purpose of converting FeatureSet to JSON and how can I work around that problem. If anyone has encountered that problem or has a hint on how to solve this, it'd be appreciated. Thank you