Re: Recovering the 'document order' of parsed json

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 20:11 -0500, David Cramer wrote:

> I'm experimenting with parse-json and the map functions, but I gather
> that once parse-json gives me a map, I have no way of recovering the
> original order of the keys in the source json.

In general JSON maps are not ordered:

{ "a" : 1,
  "socks" : "black" }
is the same as
{ "socks" : "black",
  "a" : 1 }

Only arrays are ordered,
{ "socks" : [ "black", "green" ] }
is not the same as
{ "socks" : [ "green", "black" ] }

Hope this helps - if not, maybe send some short/simple test cases?

Liam


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