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Can I simply change the extension of a .json file to .txt without problems?
My CMS' file permissions lock access to files with the .json extension. These permissions can't be changed right now. To get around this and still use javascript objects I've changed the extensions of my .json files to .txt. So far so good.
Is this a reasonable solution or should I be worried about some unknown catastrophe in the future?
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JSON is a wildly successful way of formatting data for several reasons. First, it's native to JavaScript, and it's used inside of JavaScript programs as JSON literals. You can also use JSON with other programming languages, so it's useful for data exchange between heterogeneous systems. Finally, it is human readable.
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data-interchange format that is human-readable text and is used to transmit data, especially between web applications and servers.
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a standard text-based format for representing structured data based on JavaScript object syntax. It is commonly used for transmitting data in web applications (e.g., sending some data from the server to the client, so it can be displayed on a web page, or vice versa).
Can I simply change the extension of a .json file to .txt without problems?
Yes.
Think about it; the sole purpose of file extensions is to let a file browser (Windows Explorer, Finder Windows) choose a program to open that file with.
By default, .html files are opened (for me) with chrome, and chrome does a great job of displaying it as a web page - but, if I renamed the extension .42ftw, the data within the file wouldn't change, and I could still render it as html using chromium if I wanted - it's just my File Browser wouldn't know what to do with it.
So, basically, file extensions don't change the within data.
So, as long as you handle the data within your .txt files as you did with your .json files, you should see no difference. Maybe external packages you use might be configured to load only .json, but that shouldn't be a problem.
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