Re: Preserve the order in JSON


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Re: Preserve the order in JSON

by afoken (Chancellor)

on Jun 17, 2015 at 07:17 UTC ( [id://1130765]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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is there a way to preserve the order

Not exactly, but JSON can sort JSON object keys. You need to call $json->canonical() before $json->encode($data). Note that this adds some significant overhead.

The big question remains: Why do you need sorted keys in the object?

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Re^2: Preserve the order in JSON (overhead)
by tye (Sage) on Dec 28, 2016 at 19:34 UTC

Note that this adds some significant overhead.

Have you measured it? I have. It is far from "significant" unless you have at least one hash that holds a very large number of keys. I find such to be pretty rare in the JSON I've had to deal with.

I have found much more overhead resulted from the pain of having to deal with random order of keys in JSON, making comparisons or just visual searching much more difficult. And overhead to human processing costs a ton more than overhead to computer processing, IME.

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