nushell/crates/nuon/README.md
Stefan Holderbach c5aa15c7f6
Add top-level crate documentation/READMEs (#12907)
# Description
Add `README.md` files to each crate in our workspace (-plugins) and also
include it in the `lib.rs` documentation for <docs.rs> (if there is no
existing `lib.rs` crate documentation)

In all new README I added the defensive comment that the crates are not
considered stable for public consumption. If necessary we can adjust
this if we deem a crate useful for plugin authors.
2024-07-14 10:10:41 +02:00

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Support for the NUON format.

The NUON format is a superset of JSON designed to fit the feel of Nushell. Some of its extra features are

  • trailing commas are allowed
  • commas are optional in lists
  • quotes are not required around keys or any bare string that do not contain spaces or special characters
  • comments are allowed, though not preserved when using [from_nuon]

Example

below is some data in the JSON format

{
    "name": "Some One",
    "birth": "1970-01-01",
    "stats": [
      2544729499973429198,
      687051042647753531,
      6702443901704799912
    ]
}

and an equivalent piece of data written in NUON

{
    name: "Some One",       # the name of the person
    birth: "1970-01-01",    # their date of birth
    stats: [                # some dummy "stats" about them
      2544729499973429198,
      687051042647753531,
      6702443901704799912, # note the trailing comma here...
    ], # and here
} # wait, are these comments in a JSON-like document?!?!