json-procs.tcl

Typed JSON export of XoWiki pages. Mapping rules:

• Export all attributes except transient attributes prefixed with "__".
• Determine scalar types from inherited slot metadata; use explicit mappings for otherwise untyped built-in IDs and rendering flags.
• Export instance_attributes as an object, using form-field metadata to determine each stored value's type.
• Export numeric fields as numbers and boolean fields as true/false. Empty numeric and boolean values become null; empty text remains "".
• Preserve unknown types and invalid nonempty scalar values as strings. Numeric fields with keep_string_rep retain nonempty strings.
• Export multiple-value fields as arrays of strings.
• Export compound fields recursively as objects, removing the containing field's name prefix from component keys.
• Export repeated fields recursively as arrays in numeric occurrence order, omitting the occurrence-zero template. Repeated compound fields therefore become arrays of objects.
• Export stored values without applying form defaults. Preserve stored attributes no longer declared in the form; omit absent attributes.

Encode using ns_json, guarded by acs::icanuse. The web method returns pretty-printed JSON and requires site-wide administrator privileges.

Location:

packages/xowiki/tcl/json-procs.tcl

Created:

2026-10-22

Author:

Gustaf Neumann

Procedures in this file

• xowiki::json_scalar (private)

Detailed information

 xowiki::json_scalar type value