1713317 - Add support for JSON Lines / NDJSON to the JSON viewer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1603986

(DevTools :: General, enhancement)

Description

[info]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0

Steps to reproduce:

File / Open / select *.jsonl JSON Lines file.

JSON Lines and NDJSON are file formats which have become common in many scenarios. The format is very similar to JSON: it's a sequence of multiple JSON content, each JSON object one per line.

Semantically, a JSON Lines / NDJSON file is an ARRAY of JSON.

Actual results:

The JSON Lines file opened as a plain text file

Expected results:

The JSON Lines or NDJSON file should render using the JSON viewer, which is a much more useful hierarchical, collapsible, color-coded display.

The differences between JSON Lines or NDJSON versus JSON are trivial: other than the constraints on newlines and an initial '[' and ']' for an outer array container, they are effectively the same.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::General' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.