AWS Classroom – Json Basics 06/Nov/2019

Json

History

• Prior to JSON, for configurations and transferring data
  • Plain Text => Human Readable
  • Binary => Machine Readable
  • XML => Both Machine and Human Readable

Understanding JSon

• Json is collection of name value pairs
• Value of <name> can be text/number/boolean/list/object
• Text: "<name>": "<value>"
• Number: "<name>": <value>
• Boolean: "<name>": True/False
• list: "<name>": ["<value1>",......,"<valuen>"]
• object:

{
    "name1": <value1>
    ..
    ..
    "namen": <valuen>
}

• Sample Json tried in Class

{
  'Movies': [
     {
	   'name': '',
	   'language': [],
	   'Rating': 80,
	   'certificate': 'UA'
	 },
	 
  ]
}

References

• Json Tutorials:
  • W3Schools
  • Tutorials Point
• YAML Tutorials:
  • Tutorials Point

Using Json To Create IAM Policies

• A Strict Grammar is defined by AWS. Refer Here for full specifications