Question

What is the spec for JSON output of an array with a single item in the array?

Is it:

{"people":{"person":[{"id":1,"name":"jimbob"}]}}

Or:

{"people":{"person":{"id":1,"name":"jimbob"}}}

I know the JSON spec for multiple items in an array is:

{"people":{"person":[{"id":1,"name":"jimbob"},{"id":2,"name":"bettysue"}]}}

but I can’t seem to find a spec for what a how a single item in an array should be represented.

Answer 1

It’s the first one —

{"people":{"person":[{"id":1,"name":"jimbob"}]}}

Otherwise it would be an object, not an array.

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Incidentally, it seems like it would make more sense to remove the “person” object (seems redundant):

{"people":[{"id":1,"name":"jimbob"}]}