Order of JSON elements not same in Pretty and Raw view

[Steef de Rooi]

The order in Pretty is wrong:
{
"product": {
"digest": "42d87a4e7abeb542a163f30e956b6db95c70a4b3ceb8200d46c6ca133ff9da50",
"priceUSD": 125,
"autoProcess": true,
"priceEUR": 105,
"mediaType": "Print",
"code": "030A16",
"cartEnabled": true,
"description": "Article 16 of the OECD Model Convention: History, Scope and Future",
"relatedItems": [
{
}, {
}
],
"isbn": "9789087223199",
"shippable": true,
"productType": "Book",
},
}

Raw:

{"product":{"code":"030A16","description":"Article 16 of the OECD Model Convention: History, Scope and Future","isbn":"9789087223199","priceEUR":105.0,"priceUSD":125.0,"productType":"Book","mediaType":"Print","relatedItems":["06DA16","06EA16"],"autoProcess":true,"cartEnabled":true,"shippable":true,"digest":"42d87a4e7abeb542a163f30e956b6db95c70a4b3ceb8200d46c6ca133ff9da50"}}

[Meng Li]

Can you provide a url for this response?

[Steef de Rooi]

Can you provide a url for this response?

I'm afraid not. This service is on our company internal network. I will see if I can find a service that is exposed outside and having the same problem.

[Meng Li]

No problem, we can just put it into a github raw file to test it

[Steef de Rooi]

You could try: https://research.ibfd.org/custos/user In the Pretty view the same happens. The order is not in sync with the Raw view (which is correct). Op 18 aug. 2020 om 18:09 heeft Meng Li <[e-mail]> het volgende geschreven:  No problem, we can just put it into a github raw file to test it — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#72 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGE7QNWIVYLZQWDC6YBHK7DSBKRS5ANCNFSM4QDWKTNA>.

[Meng Li]

Sorry for late reply.
JSON definition says:

An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs.
http://www.json.org/

The library SwiftyJSON to analysis json, does not keep the order too.
It's hard to keep the original order, but we can sort it again by the order of alphabet.

[Steef de Rooi]

Hi Meng Li, It maybe that JSON says that an object is an unordered set of name/value pairs because for the meaning of the content it doesn’t make any difference. But for the human eye it does. It makes testing harder if a tool messes up your ordering and I don’t expect tools like yours to behave like this. The browser plugins that I know that make JSON pretty also do not do that. If you cannot or do not want to fix your tool then I have to abandon it and look for something that does respect my ordering. Cheers, Steef Op 22 sep. 2020 om 15:10 heeft Meng Li <[e-mail]> het volgende geschreven:  Sorry for late reply. JSON definition says: An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs. http://www.json.org/ The library SwiftyJSON to analysis json, does not keep the order too. It's hard to keep the original order, but we can sort it again by the order of alphabet. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#72 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGE7QNWXYDL6AYN7ISJDJ33SHCO43ANCNFSM4QDWKTNA>.

[Meng Li]

This project relies on MGFormatter to format json string, which relies on SwiftyJSON to read and analysis json.
To keep the same order, all of MGFormatter have to be rewritten.
I will try to find a library which can analysis json as the same order as the original string.
If you find any library, please told me.
Anyway, rewriting it by myself is impossible, cost a lot of time and cause unknown errors.
I will sort json keys by the order of alphabet, and update this project, hope you like it.