Chapter 11
JSON
This chapter covers the encoding format JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Much like XML, JSON is used to encode the messages of network programmability protocols. Whereas NETCONF supports only XML, RESTCONF and gRPC both support JSON. JSON is newer than XML. Whereas XML was primarily developed for machine-to-machine communications, JSON was developed to be human readable. JSON therefore tends to be the more popular choice for encoding when specific XML features are not required.
This chapter also covers one of the applications of JSON: JSON Schema Definition (JSD). JSD is used to construct schemas, or data models, and can be used either independently or in conjunction with YANG (which is covered in detail in Chapter 13, “YANG ...
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