valid json string code example

Example 1: javascript is valid json string

function isValidJSONString(str) {
    try {
        JSON.parse(str);
    } catch (e) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}
//usage
var personJSONString = '{"first_name":"Tony","last_name":"Hawk","age":31}';
if(isValidJSONString(personJSONString)){
 //cool we are valid, lets parse
 var person= JSON.parse(personJSONString);
}

Example 2: how to verify json format is valid

I use Gson class in order to convert a
Json object into a java object.
If it works without any error, it means that it is a valid json format...

import com.google.gson.Gson;

public class JSONUtils {

  Gson gson = new Gson();

  public boolean isJSONValid(String jsonInString) {
      try {
          gson.fromJson(jsonInString, Object.class);   
          return true;
      } catch(com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException e) { 
          return false;
      }
  }
}

Example 3: JSON validate

import numpy as np
df['first_five_Letter']=df['Country (region)'].str.extract(r'(^w{5})')
df.head()