JSON support

[dugajean]

As a newcomer to Java coming from JavaScript and PHP, I'm really used to JSON configurations. Would be pretty awesome if it was supported.

Thanks!

[metacubed]

(Note: I'm not a contributor to Takari, just commenting on what I've found useful.)

Since YAML is a super-set of JSON, you can actually use polyglot-yaml and write your pom.yaml files in JSON format - they will parse correctly. I think you still have to keep the "yaml" file extension.

• https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/blob/master/poms/pom.yml
• https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven-examples/blob/master/yaml/pom.yml

Also, try out polyglot-groovy. Interestingly, the converted POM is very "JSON-like", with some additional benefits. It does need a Groovy install in addition to Maven, though.

• https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/blob/master/poms/pom.groovy
• https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven-examples/blob/master/groovy/pom.groovy

[ADTC]

@takari please consider adding pom.json as an accepted POM file for YAML if you don't plan to add JSON as a new artifact. This will allow IDEs and code editors to correctly consume the file, giving developers the ability to write the JSON format augmented with IDE features. If we have to write JSON inside a pom.yaml file, most IDEs would not understand it and we'll miss out on all the IDE features that a JSON file would have. It will also be difficult to validate the JSON content.

It would actually be better to implement new JSON artifact, based on this: https://www.baeldung.com/maven-polyglot