JSON strongly typed array of objects

Question

JSON will normally encode an array of objects as something like:

"batter":
[
{ "id": "1001", "type": "Regular" },
{ "id": "1002", "type": "Chocolate" },
{ "id": "1003", "type": "Blueberry" },
{ "id": "1004", "type": "Devil's Food" }
                    ]

Is there a way that I can encode such that it the object definition is declared only once so that the name of the fields are not specified in each array entry?

Thanks,

Art

Answer 1

No. You have to repeat the field names in each entry.

JSON is deliberately very simple with generally only one way to express a particular data model, and sometimes this can make it a little more verbose.