JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language , Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999 . JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language. JSON is built on two structures: A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object , record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array. An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array , vector, list, or sequence. These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming languages support them in one form...