Myjson – A simple JSON store for your web or mobile app

ozh 12 years ago |

Neat and simple, but that's exactly the kind of things that makes me go "too bad it's not open sourced, I could use that"

uniclaude 12 years ago | |

To be honest, the value resides more in the idea and the fact that it's already online than in the code.

A basic implementation of this service would take less than 100 lines in any language commonly used on the web.

ozh 12 years ago | | |

Of course. It's just that it's easier and quicker to use something that someone has already developed, than recreate the 100-lines wheel each time.

bennyg 12 years ago | | |

Which is why I'm confused as to why you want an open-source version? Just use this one.

oneeyedpigeon 12 years ago | | |

Maybe ozh wants to host the service on their own server? Or they've found a bug they want to fix?

Touche 12 years ago | | |

Anyone can PUT and replace your data.

tburch 12 years ago | | |

Give JSON Blob (https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob) a try! It's open sourced and you can run it locally if you want.

michaelmior 12 years ago |

Seems like it might be handy for testing. Certainly good to stay way from it for production apps though.

tburch 12 years ago |

I built http://jsonblob.com for this purpose. It has an HTTP API as well as we nice GUI interface to edit your JSON. It's open sourced and really just a thin webapp on top of mongo, so it's easy to run your own.

akosednar 12 years ago | |

Looks just like the design/functionality of http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ which seems to be an older project

tburch 12 years ago | | |

Yeah, it uses that for the editor, but also has a full HTTP API (http://jsonblob.com/api) behind it for storing the JSON and accessing it from outside the browser.

alxeder 12 years ago |

A JSON literal is also valid JSON. Therefore 4, "test" and true should be saveable without a object wrapper

ajanuary 12 years ago | |

To expand on that: only since RFC 7158, earlier versions required the root to be an array or object.

So if you're generating json, it's advisable to wrap it so that parsers written according to the older specs won't choke on it.

However, when parsing, like this, you want to try and accept values.

donbronson 12 years ago |

Could be used for notepad API or something public. That said, it seems that services like Parse and Firebox seem more robust and also have faster response times.

tyleregeto 12 years ago |

I can't see the use case of this. If it was editable after saving then that would make sense, but this is just static. And being static, you're better off just bundling it with the app. Unless I'm missing something?

Nice presentation though, the site looks nice.

EDIT: I see you can create and update through the HTTP API, which makes it much more useful.

soundoflight 12 years ago | |

Except everyone can update it if they know your identifier.

jackmaney 12 years ago |

Neat, but it would be neater if this were open source and running on https.

fotoblur 12 years ago | |

Working on getting cert today ;). Thanks for the feedback.

goblin89 12 years ago |

Why not use https://www.firebase.com? Seems more reliable (Privacy Policy, ToS, SLA) and easier to start using, and it has a free tier if you need something quick for development.

ImJasonH 12 years ago |

I built a similar thing, in Go on App Engine: https://github.com/imjasonh/simply-put

Edmond 12 years ago |

for anyone interested in a an easy tool for building JSON store/APIs, you might find HiveMind (crudzilla.com) useful, I am the developer.

Here's a simple screencast: http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/instantiator.g...

There's a lot that you can with it, in terms of generating JSON.

gregbarbosa 12 years ago |

For testing purposes, wouldn't using Dropbox suffice as well? It gives a quick way to update the JSON and see changes occur near live in app?

tehskylark 12 years ago | |

Yep, I've done the same in the past.

graham1776 12 years ago |

Could you do this for an excel document (database)?

It would be cool to be able to drag and drop an excel document into here and call it with a url.

techaddict009 12 years ago |

Seems simple and useful like jsfiddle. I will really use this in my app.

ff7c11 12 years ago |

Maximum nesting depth of 100 :( or else it says it's invalid JSON.

fotoblur 12 years ago | |

Thanks for finding this...looks like its rail's JSON::Ext::Parser which default to 100 max nestings. Looks like it can be disabled. http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.1/libdoc/json/rdoc/JSON/E...