Option to show quotes around strings

[dhruvkb]

The API we work with returns a JSON with a bunch of fields. Sometimes it deals with numbers that may be sent as a string, especially where the number of digits (and any leading zeroes) are important to be preserved.

For example, there are cases where an ID needs to be 5 characters so a 4-digit ID is sent as "01234". But the UI makes it hard to know whats a string and what's a number because neither are quoted.

{
  "num_id": 1234,
  "str_id": "01234",
}

is rendered as

It would be nice if there was an option to show quotes for string values in the tree UI.

[josdejong]

Thanks for sharing your idea, showing the quotes can be helpful indeed. It will also give a more crowded view, so it is a tradeoff.

Note that in the successor of this library, svelte-jsoneditor, you can implement your own renderer for values using onRenderValue. That allows defining some custom renderer that encloses string values in quotes.