I am having argument with a friend here we are working on a project together. I am handling the front end and he is doing the backend API. I told him to return pure Json text in his reply to the API call. But instead, he replied with something like below:
callBackFunction({"sample": "value"});
I told him, it is supposed to be only
{"sample": "value"}
But he insisted that his way is the STANDARD JSON REPLY. We are still arguing about this till today.
For now, I manually trim the extra texts just to get the Json, it works OK, but trimming texts and characters is so dangerous, prone to error etc. So, I want to ask all programmers in the world, is the callBackFunction() is part of the standard JSON reply???? It doesn’t make sense to me.
>Solution :
This has been answered here Is there any standard for JSON API response format?. But yes
{"sample": "value"} would be considered the standard way to receive JSON