JSON Viewer and XPATH Workbook pligins.

1. Tools for Daily use
JSON Viewer and XPath Workbook
Suresh Krishna
Oracle Inc.
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2. JSON Viewer (1)
 Motivation
– Wide spread JSON format
– Web 2.0 / SOA IDE development
– Analysis of JSON Request/Response from
variety of Web services
– Complexity of REST, WSDL (SOAP/RPC), RSS
web services
– Complex JSON structures
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3. JSON Viewer (2) …
{
quot;Carsquot; : [
{quot;Hondaquot;: [ quot;CRVquot;,
quot;Accordquot;,
quot;Civicquot;,
quot;Pilotquot;]},
{quot;Toyotaquot;:[ quot;Camryquot;,
quot;Corollaquot;,
quot;Siennaquot;]}
]
}
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4. JSON Viewer (3) …
{
quot;rootsquot;: {
quot;bookmark_barquot;: {
quot;childrenquot;: [ {
quot;childrenquot;: [ {
quot;date_addedquot;: quot;12880758517186875quot;,
quot;namequot;: quot;Example URLquot;,
quot;typequot;: quot;urlquot;,
quot;urlquot;: quot;http://example.comquot;
}, {
quot;date_addedquot;: quot;12880290253039500quot;,
quot;namequot;: quot;Another URLquot;,
quot;typequot;: quot;urlquot;,
quot;urlquot;: quot;http://example.orgquot;
} ],
quot;date_addedquot;: quot;12880772259603750quot;,
quot;date_modifiedquot;: quot;12880772452901500quot;,
quot;namequot;: quot;Sample Folderquot;,
quot;typequot;: quot;folderquot;
}, {
quot;date_addedquot;: quot;12880823826333250quot;,
quot;namequot;: quot;Json.NETquot;,
quot;typequot;: quot;urlquot;,
quot;urlquot;: quot;http://james.newtonking.com/pages/json-net.aspxquot;;
} ],
quot;date_addedquot;: quot;0quot;,
quot;date_modifiedquot;: quot;12880823831234250quot;,
quot;namequot;: quot;Bookmarks barquot;,
quot;typequot;: quot;folderquot;
},
quot;otherquot;: {
quot;childrenquot;: [ ],
quot;date_addedquot;: quot;0quot;,
quot;date_modifiedquot;: quot;0quot;,
quot;namequot;: quot;Other bookmarksquot;,
quot;typequot;: quot;folderquot;
}
},
quot;versionquot;: 1
}
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5. JSON Viewer (4)
 Isavailable as a view in Eclipse
 Easy to Visualize “arrays” and “hash” structures
 JSON Text -> JSON Tree
 JSON Text -> XML Tree
 Based on JSON.org Java API [www.json.org/java/index.html]
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6. XPath Workbook (1)
 XPath Workbook
– available tools are expensive
– simple Eclipse integration
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7. XPath Workbook (2)
 Available as a View in Eclipse
 Validate Xpath Expression
 XPath Evaluation
– Dynamic Evaluation
– Content Assist
– Remember old expressions
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8. XPath Workbook (3)
 Future Enhancements
– Connect XML editor to input
– Auto completion to suggest all XPath functions
– XML result formatting to skip new lines
– Test and Certify on different platforms
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9. Demo…
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10. Resources …
JSON Viewer

– http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req
– http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205
XPath Workbook

– http://code.google.com/p/xpathworkbook/
– http://code.google.com/p/xpathworkbook/wiki/XPathWorkb
– http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req
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11. Tools for Daily use…
“JSON Viewer” and “XPath Workbook”
Thanks for attention !
Have Fun !
Suresh Krishna
suresh.madhuvarsu@oracle.com
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