Convert JSON to JSONLines

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects. It's widely used for data exchange between web applications and servers, API responses, configuration files, and data storage.

Technical Details

JSON represents data with key-value pairs in a nested structure. It supports strings, numbers, booleans, arrays, objects, and null values, making it flexible for various data types. JSON is language-independent but derived from JavaScript syntax, making it particularly popular in web development. JSON files use the .json extension and have a MIME type of application/json.

Advantages

• Supports complex, nested data structures
• Native support in JavaScript and most modern programming languages
• Self-describing and human-readable
• Compact compared to XML and other structured formats
• Language-independent and widely adopted as a standard
• Perfect for API responses and data transfer
• No special parsing tools needed - standard in most programming languages

Limitations

• Not ideal for tabular data analysis
• No support for comments or metadata
• Can be verbose for large datasets
• No schema validation built into the format itself
• Nested structures can be difficult to analyze in spreadsheet tools
• Converting to tabular formats requires flattening of nested objects

JSON Lines, also known as JSONL, is a handy format for storing structured data that you can process one record at a time.

Each line in a JSON Lines file is a valid JSON object, typically representing a single record. The lines are separated by newline characters, making it easy to read and write sequentially.

This format works great for logging, streaming, and other scenarios where you want to process data line by line without parsing an entire JSON array.