JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text format of data exchange which is widely used in the web-applications. Compared with XML, it is more compact and occupies less space. In addition, all the browsers have the built-in tools to work with JSON.
The necessity to work with this format at the platform level is caused not only by the fact that this is a «fashionable modern» format which the application solutions of 1С:Enterprise can use by themselves for integration with third-party applications. Another reason is that JSON is widely used in the HTTP interfaces. And 1С:Enterprise just has such mechanisms in which you want to use this format. These are the application REST interface automatically generated by the platform and the HTTP-services which you can create by yourself.
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