Automatic JSON formatting

Brave Feature Requests Desktop Requests
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As a developer, it’s frustrating having to copy & paste raw, minified/ unformatted JSON into a JSON formatter or installing a third party app to format the JSON in a nice way - when reading from an API I’m currently developing.

I’d like to see an ‘auto-format’ option for JSON objects, with perhaps a built in search feature so I can easily traverse the objects I’m querying.

For example:

[{"id":1,"name":"House on a Hill","description":"It's a house, on a hill.","bedrooms":"2","bathrooms":"2","parking":"4","created_at":"2020-02-28T11:42:09.758Z","updated_at":"2020-02-28T11:44:55.685Z","agents":{"id":1,"name":"John Doe","number":"01234 567890","email":"john.doe@email.com","created_at":"2020-02-28T11:43:16.971Z","updated_at":"2020-02-28T11:43:16.971Z"},"image":[{"id":1,"n

Could be:

[
	{
		"id: 1,
		"name": "House on a Hill",
		"description": "...."
	...

You get the idea.

I don’t want to rely on third party plugins from the google extension market, or websites that I have to manually copy & paste to.

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Just me I guess…

3

I am hoping they can make Brave handle JSON data like Firefox does…

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@krynv You can check the Network tab of the DevTools
When you select a request, if the content-type is application/json, you have a tree view on Preview.

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Not just you, i also would like having that feature

6

I’d love to see this feature included in brave!

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I would like to signal that I would also love to see this as a default feature for Brave

It reduces the third-party risk from installing some unknown developer extension simply for JSON formatting

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count me in that one also :slight_smile:

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It’s very easier to read json on firefox

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the problem is they depend on google chrome on that one as it part of the core of the browser so not sure if they will do it or not

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Chrome already has a JSON viewer & prett-fier built-in which you can use in the network panel of the developer tools. Wonder if they could simply port that over to the main window.

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I’m in, it would be great if it will be part of the core and no need to install third-party plugin which may cause security/privacy issues.

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I hope also that Brave add this as a core feature.

14

Firefox JSON > Brave JSON at present. I would like this feature too

15

Me, too. Please add this feature. I would help if I had time. As is, I can’t use the browser for work.

16

Yes please, I’d like this too. Feels dated.

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Hi

Signed up exclusively to vote on this.

Hope the devs will notice this suggestions as it would really be a helpful feature.

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Is this that hard to implement?

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Now that it has 42 votes, does it make it more interesting? :slight_smile:
I’m willing to help if possible

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I have taken an example from you and registered also for this vote…
Really I love Brave but there are couple of small things that annoys me.