NAME JSONY - Relaxed JSON with a little bit of YAML SYNOPSIS use JSONY; my $data = JSONY->new->load($jsony_string); DESCRIPTION JSONY is a data language that is simlar to JSON, just more chill. All valid JSON is also valid JSONY (and represents the same thing when loaded), but JSONY lets you omit a lot of the syntax that makes JSON a pain to write. API JSONY has one instance method: "load". You pass it a JSONY string and it returns the loaded Perl data object. JSONY SYNTAX Here is some examples of JSONY followed by equivalent JSON: Words don't need quotes. A list of things is an array: foo bar baz [ "foo", "bar", "baz" ] Strings with spaces can use single or double quotes: 'foo bar' # <= This is (a comment indicating) a string # More commenting "baz boom " [ "foo bar ", "baz boom " ] Top level hashes can be ':' separated pairs or use curlies. Sub hashes require curlies. foo: { bar baz } num: -1.2e3 { "foo": { "bar": "baz" }, "num": -1.2e3 } Top level arrays can use '- ' at the start of lines. Those arrays go the end of line. Lines can be continued using a trailing comma. Sub arrays require square brackets. - array of 4 scalars - array with [ sub array { of things }] - array of 7 things on, two lines [ [ "array", "of", 4, "scalars" ], [ "array", "with", [ "sub", "array" { "of": "things" } ] ], [ "array", "of", 7, "things", "on", "two", "lines" ] ] More soon... NOTE: You may want to look at the tests (especially "t/load.t") to see the full abilities of JSONY. STATUS JSONY has been in use for well over a year. It seems to working well. Development people are working on this in "#jsony" and "#pegex" in irc.freenode.net. Please drop by. JSONY.pm is a very simple Pegex-based parser. You can see the quite tiny JSONY grammar here: coming soon. AUTHORS Ingy döt Net (ingy) Matt S. Trout (mst) COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2012, 2013, 2014 Ingy döt Net LICENSE This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself.