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The following simple example:
the output should be:

{
"test1": true,
"test2": false
}

but it is

{
"test2": 0,
"test1": 1
}

My two questions:

Why is bool interpreted wrong? In Json 0 and 1 are numbers and not booleans.

Why is the output not in the order of how it was declared the structure?

With PureBasic, the variable type Boolean does not exist.

Variable var.b is a signed byte ...

Yes, but byte is no data type in Json. (only string, number, bool, array and object)

So I thought, it would be interpreted as boolean.

Is there a good way to get the right output from insert/compose?

Or do I have to do a dirty way with defining it as string in structure and do a replacement after compose?

@Garfield

You can use SetJSONBoolean().

As far as the order is concerned:
InsertJSONStructure() creates a JSON object, and the order of members of a JSON object is not defined. You can use Save JSON data with object members well-arranged to set their order.

I came accross that also in the past, it removes the ability to easily extract/insert structures, when boolean values are needed (for external APIs e.g.).
Would be cool, if we had some flag for extract/insertstructure, like #PB_JSON_BYTES_EQUAL_BOOLEAN or similar

HeX0R wrote: Tue Mar 18, 2025 6:19 pm Would be cool, if we had some flag for extract/insertstructure, like #PB_JSON_BYTES_EQUAL_BOOLEAN or similar

+1