josdejong/jsoneditor

Option to show quotes around strings

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#1,516 opened on May 13, 2023

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Description

The API we work with returns a JSON with a bunch of fields. Sometimes it deals with numbers that may be sent as a string, especially where the number of digits (and any leading zeroes) are important to be preserved.

For example, there are cases where an ID needs to be 5 characters so a 4-digit ID is sent as "01234". But the UI makes it hard to know whats a string and what's a number because neither are quoted.

{
  "num_id": 1234,
  "str_id": "01234",
}

is rendered as

It would be nice if there was an option to show quotes for string values in the tree UI.

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Add a configuration option to toggle the display of quotes around string values in the tree view. The quotes should be visible when the option is enabled, helping distinguish strings from numbers.
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontendtooling
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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JavaScript
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70