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Myjson – A simple JSON store for your web or mobile app

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40 pointsfotoblur27 comments

Neat and simple, but that's exactly the kind of things that makes me go "too bad it's not open sourced, I could use that"

To be honest, the value resides more in the idea and the fact that it's already online than in the code.

A basic implementation of this service would take less than 100 lines in any language commonly used on the web.

Of course. It's just that it's easier and quicker to use something that someone has already developed, than recreate the 100-lines wheel each time.

Which is why I'm confused as to why you want an open-source version? Just use this one.

Anyone can PUT and replace your data.

Maybe ozh wants to host the service on their own server? Or they've found a bug they want to fix?

Give JSON Blob (https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob) a try! It's open sourced and you can run it locally if you want.

Seems like it might be handy for testing. Certainly good to stay way from it for production apps though.

I built http://jsonblob.com for this purpose. It has an HTTP API as well as we nice GUI interface to edit your JSON. It's open sourced and really just a thin webapp on top of mongo, so it's easy to run your own.

Looks just like the design/functionality of http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ which seems to be an older project

Yeah, it uses that for the editor, but also has a full HTTP API (http://jsonblob.com/api) behind it for storing the JSON and accessing it from outside the browser.

A JSON literal is also valid JSON. Therefore 4, "test" and true should be saveable without a object wrapper

To expand on that: only since RFC 7158, earlier versions required the root to be an array or object.

So if you're generating json, it's advisable to wrap it so that parsers written according to the older specs won't choke on it.

However, when parsing, like this, you want to try and accept values.

Could be used for notepad API or something public. That said, it seems that services like Parse and Firebox seem more robust and also have faster response times.

I can't see the use case of this. If it was editable after saving then that would make sense, but this is just static. And being static, you're better off just bundling it with the app. Unless I'm missing something?

Nice presentation though, the site looks nice.

EDIT: I see you can create and update through the HTTP API, which makes it much more useful.

Except everyone can update it if they know your identifier.

Neat, but it would be neater if this were open source and running on https.

Working on getting cert today ;). Thanks for the feedback.

Why not use https://www.firebase.com? Seems more reliable (Privacy Policy, ToS, SLA) and easier to start using, and it has a free tier if you need something quick for development.

I built a similar thing, in Go on App Engine: https://github.com/imjasonh/simply-put

for anyone interested in a an easy tool for building JSON store/APIs, you might find HiveMind (crudzilla.com) useful, I am the developer.

Here's a simple screencast: http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/instantiator.g...

There's a lot that you can with it, in terms of generating JSON.

For testing purposes, wouldn't using Dropbox suffice as well? It gives a quick way to update the JSON and see changes occur near live in app?

Yep, I've done the same in the past.

Could you do this for an excel document (database)?

It would be cool to be able to drag and drop an excel document into here and call it with a url.

Seems simple and useful like jsfiddle. I will really use this in my app.

Maximum nesting depth of 100 :( or else it says it's invalid JSON.

Thanks for finding this...looks like its rail's JSON::Ext::Parser which default to 100 max nestings. Looks like it can be disabled. http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.1/libdoc/json/rdoc/JSON/E...

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