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//examples:
JSON.parse('{}'); // {}
JSON.parse('true'); // true
JSON.parse('"foo"'); // "foo"
JSON.parse('[1, 5, "false"]'); // [1, 5, "false"]
JSON.parse('null'); // null

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Is JSON.stringify() necessary for payloads via Shared Array?
So im trying to load a .json file into a SharedArray according to the docs here: SharedArray Right now my โ€œloadโ€ function looks like this: export function loadData(dataFile) { const data = new SharedArray('dataFile', function () { const obj = JSON.parse(open(dataFile)); return obj; }) return ... More on community.grafana.com
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Why does my array have "extra values". How can I JSON.stringify this info?
I'm not sure if it's helpful, but you could consider converting the array into an object of some sort so that you don't lose the properties. const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; arr.low = 1; arr.high = 6; arr.median = 3; const obj = {}; for (const key in arr) { obj[key] = arr[key]; } console.log(JSON.stringify(obj)); Or you might consider grouping the array together somehow (like if you at least know none of the added properties will be numbers): const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; arr.low = 1; arr.high = 6; arr.median = 3; const obj = { arr: [] }; for (const key in arr) { // probably should be more thorough in checking if the key is an integer here... if(!isNaN(key)) { obj.arr.push(arr[key]); continue; } obj[key] = arr[key]; } console.log(JSON.stringify(obj)); More on reddit.com
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How to pass JSON array as input to GitHub Actions workflow?
Not really possible. Of course you can pass a string containing JSON, but that doesn't help you run a matrix of jobs. That matrix must be statically known before the workflows are run. There may be some tricks to hack around this. For example, you could run a matrix of 10 jobs that receive the same JSON, but the nth job extracts the nth element in its steps. Or you could use the API to explicitly trigger more workflows, but the results would appear to be unconnected to the current job. More on reddit.com
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streaming a large json object to a file to avoid memory allocation error

Well, JSON.stringify and JSON.parse are synchronous methods that unfortunately you can't pipe to and from. Like u/nissen2 suggests, you'll find some modules out there that will provide you what you're looking for.

Ah, I think I got it. Is there a way to permanently increase the amount of memory that node has access to? Thx.

While this may solve your problem in the mean time, I wouldn't suggest simply allocating more memory (especially with a huge JSON object.)

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A JavaScript object or value is converted to a JSON string using the JSON.stringify() method, with the option to replace values if a replacer function or replacer array is given, or to include only the specified attributes otherwise.
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As an array, its elements indicate the names of the properties in the object that should be included in the resulting JSON string. Only string and number values are taken into account; symbol keys are ignored. As a function, it takes two parameters: the key and the value being stringified.
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r/learnjavascript on Reddit: Why does my array have "extra values". How can I JSON.stringify this info?
November 29, 2021 -

This is weird but I am using a library that adds additional properties to array objects.

We have a simple array of numbers that looks like this:

[1,2,3,4,5,6]

This library I'm using (developed in house unfortunately) gives us the array but also adds extra props to it. When I console.log the array, what I actually see is:

[1,2,3,4,5,6, low: 1, high: 6, median: 3]

Unfortunately, JSON.stringify causes this info to get lost:

'[1,2,3,4,5,6]'

To make things more difficult, I do not know the exact properties that are "attached" to the array (sometimes its mean, sometimes its something completely domain specific).

How can I deal with these weird data types at runtime such that this info can be sent over the wire? Is it even possible? I imagine it breaks JSON schema of some sort.

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I'm not sure if it's helpful, but you could consider converting the array into an object of some sort so that you don't lose the properties. const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; arr.low = 1; arr.high = 6; arr.median = 3; const obj = {}; for (const key in arr) { obj[key] = arr[key]; } console.log(JSON.stringify(obj)); Or you might consider grouping the array together somehow (like if you at least know none of the added properties will be numbers): const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; arr.low = 1; arr.high = 6; arr.median = 3; const obj = { arr: [] }; for (const key in arr) { // probably should be more thorough in checking if the key is an integer here... if(!isNaN(key)) { obj.arr.push(arr[key]); continue; } obj[key] = arr[key]; } console.log(JSON.stringify(obj));
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To add to what ashanev has said, here's some things that might be useful for your research: JSON.stringify() checks for a method called toJSON() , which you can use to create a serialized format for your special objects. If those are in-house, discuss if that would be a useful way forward. If you can't do that for whatever reason, Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj) can list all the non-inherited properties on an object - even ones that don't show up in iterators like Object.keys(). You'll probably still need to determine what kind of special object it is so you can convert it to the right thing at the other end -- and keep this information updated (which is one reason for the above approach). JSON.parse() takes a reviver function to convert those custom serialized strings back in to the custom objects.
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JSON supports plain objects, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans, and null. JavaScript provides methods JSON.stringify to serialize into JSON and JSON.parse to read from JSON.
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