REST/JSON: Should I include a newline after the JSON string?
- by Mark Harrison
If I'm returning ["foo"] from a RESTful web query, Which of these is more proper? Will pedantic REST parsing die on the newline?
["foo"]\n (with newline, Content-Length=8)
["foo"] (no newline, Content-Length=7)
For easy regression testing I like the form with the newline, but I want to make sure I won't be breaking any application frameworks that might have a more strict view of the REST format.