{"id":924,"date":"2016-01-26T21:39:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-01-26T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T14:31:36","slug":"json-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/01\/26\/json-references\/","title":{"rendered":"JSON references"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there a standard way of referencing objects by identity in JSON? For example, so that graphs and other data structures with lots of (possibly circular) references can be sanely serialized\/loaded?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From: JSON: Standard way of referencing an object by identity (for, eg, circular references)? – Stack Overflow<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Then there’s an expired yet interesting Internet-Draft<\/a> used in JSON Schema<\/a> and Swagger<\/a> and a Python module<\/a> giving us this example:<\/p>\n

{<\/span>
“foo”<\/span>:<\/span> {<\/span>“$ref”<\/span>:<\/span> “#\/bar”<\/span>},<\/span>
“bar”<\/span>:<\/span> true
<\/span> }<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

that would be resolved as:<\/p>\n

\n
{<\/span>\n  \"foo\"<\/span>:<\/span> true<\/span>,<\/span>\n  \"bar\"<\/span>:<\/span> true<\/span>\n}<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is there a standard way of referencing objects by identity in JSON? For example, so that graphs and other data structures with lots of (possibly circular) references can be sanely serialized\/loaded? From: JSON: Standard way of referencing an object by identity (for, eg, circular references)? – Stack Overflow<\/p>\n
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