Can comments be used in JSON?

Question

Can I use comments inside a JSON file? If so, how?

Answer 1

You should write a JSON schema instead. JSON schema is currently a proposed Internet draft specification. Besides documentation, the schema can also be used for validating your JSON data.

Example:

{
    "description":"A person",
    "type":"object",
    "properties":
        {
            "name":
                {
                    "type":"string"
                },
            "age":
                {
                    "type":"integer",
                    "maximum":125
                }
        }
}

You can provide documentation by using the description schema attribute.