Stack Oriented Object Notation

SOON (Stack Oriented Object Notation) is a data-interchange format. It is easy for low-level programming languages to parse, and easy to convert from JSON.

Online Playground

https://output.jsbin.com/hilahod

Structure

Similar with JSON, SOON is built on two commands:

• A collection of name/value pairs (Object).
• An ordered list of values (Array).

Object

value1 key1 value2 key2 ... value<n> key<n> O<n>

The O command stands for Object.

Array

value1 value2 ... value<n> A<n>

The A command stands for Array.

String, Number, Boolean and Null

Same as JSON, single string, number, boolean and null are valid SOON.

"Hello World"
123
True
False
Null

Compare with JSON

JSON	SOON
"Hello World"	"Hello World"
123	123
true	True
false	False
null	Null
["a", "b", 123]	123 "b" "a" A3
{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2"}	"value1" "key1" "value2" "key2" O2
{"key": ["value1", "value2"]}	"value2" "value1" A2 "key" O1
[{"key": "value1"}, {"key": "value2"}]	"value2" "key" O1 "value1" "key" O1 A2