Wiki: The concise array style

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The jsonfiddle fmt's -s, --concise option will

Compact the top level array into concise array style

So, what is the "concise array style"?

The jsonfiddle fmt's -s, --concise option will compact the top level array onto one line while each one is still on a separated line, like this:

{
  "the_root": [
    {"id":101,"name":"Alpha","data":"Some value 1"},
    {"id":202,"name":"Beta","data":"Another value 2"},
    {"id":303,"name":"Gamma","data":"Third value 3"}
  ]
}

with or without the top "the_root" level, this is called the concise array style in this program.

In concrete example, the jsonfiddle fmt command of:

jsonfiddle/jsonfiddle_test.go

Line 72 in f69acaf

testIt(t, "FmtConciseA", "fmt", "--concise", "-i", "FmtConciseA.json")

Will gives the result of:

jsonfiddle/test/FmtConciseA.ref

Lines 1 to 5 in f69acaf

	[
	{"city":"NYC","name":"Alice"},
	{"city":"LA","name":"Bob"},
	{"city":"SF","name":"Charlie"}
	]

This format allows me to use simple tool like grep to search all records of, say, the LA city.