Question

I need to return a leaderboard data in pages via JSON, which is the correct structure, is it this

{
 pages: [
         {
          [
           {user: John,
            rating:11},
           {user: Bob,
            rating: 20},
           {user: Andy,
            rating: 30},
            ...
          ]
         },
         {
          [
           {user: Sally,
            rating: 110},
           {user: Peter,
            rating: 115},
           {user: Jim,
            rating: 350},
            ...
          ]
         },
         ...
        ]
}         

Or is this (correct JSON)

{
    "pages": [
        [
            {
                "user": "John",
                "rating": 11 
            },
            {
                "user": "Bob",
                "rating": 20 
            },
            {
                "user": "Andy",
                "rating": 30 
            } 
        ],
        [
            {
                "user": "Sally",
                "rating": 110 
            },
            {
                "user": "Peter",
                "rating": 115 
            },
            {
                "user": "Jim",
                "rating": 350 
            } 
        ] 
    ]
}

UPDATE:
Thanks for all the prompt answers, and yes I did construct the JSON by hand which is obviously not a good idea as some of you have pointed out. The 2nd option is the proper JSON and I have updated it with the correct JSON structure for anyone else that might be reading this in the future.

Answer 1

The latter is correct, but you need to enclose all your strings with double quotes. You also used a period instead of a comma after the first closing square bracket.

You may wish to use JSONLint to validate your JSON.