Stringify JSON

How to use Stringify JSON

1. 1. Paste your JSON. Paste the JSON object or array you want to embed as a string, formatted or minified. The tool reads it as data and prepares to wrap it the way JSON.stringify would.
2. 2. See the JSON string literal. The output escapes every double quote and backslash in your data and wraps the whole thing in a single pair of quotes, producing exactly what a language would emit when serializing the value to a string field.
3. 3. Copy the escaped string. Copy the quoted, escaped result and paste it wherever JSON needs to live inside another JSON string, such as a log field, a config value or an API parameter that itself expects a JSON string.

When to use Stringify JSON

Stringify JSON is for the moment you need JSON data to travel as a single string value rather than as its own structure. This comes up whenever one JSON document has to carry another JSON document inside one of its string fields, the same job JSON.stringify does in JavaScript.

• Embedding a payload in a log field. A logging system stores every event as a JSON object with a message field that is itself a string. Stringifying your structured data turns it into a valid value for that field.
• Passing JSON through a form input. An API expects a config parameter as a JSON-encoded string inside a larger JSON request body. Stringifying your object first gives you the exact escaped text that field expects.
• Building a test fixture by hand. You are writing a unit test that asserts against JSON.stringify output and need the exact escaped string to compare against, without running the serialization code yourself.
• Storing JSON in a database text column. A legacy table stores structured data in a plain text column instead of a native JSON type. Stringifying converts your object into the escaped text that column expects.

Examples

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

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

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