jsonPretty

Turns a value into indented JSON text with the keys in alphabetical order.

Keyboard Maestro: JSONFromDictionary Pretty, JSONFromVariables Pretty

Details #

jsonPretty(value) takes exactly one argument and returns text: the value written as JSON, one item per line with two-space indents, keys sorted, and slashes left unescaped.

Pass a record or a list. Compare jsonText, which writes compact JSON.

Parameters #

Takes 1 argument. {{ jsonPretty(text) }}

Examples #

jsonPretty(person)

→

{
  "born" : 1815,
  "name" : "Ada"
}

Sample variable	Value
`person`	`{"born": 1815, "name": "Ada"}`

jsonPretty(variablesJSON("user_"))

→

{
  "age" : 36,
  "name" : "Ada"
}

Sample variable	Value
`user_age`	`36`
`user_name`	`Ada`

Gotchas #

Text is encoded as a JSON string, not parsed: jsonPretty("{}") gives a quoted string. Parse it first with json.
Because keys are sorted, the order won't match how a record was built.