source: node_modules/highlight.js/lib/languages/json.js@ e48199a

/*
Language: JSON
Description: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format.
Author: Ivan Sagalaev <maniac@softwaremaniacs.org>
Website: http://www.json.org
Category: common, protocols
*/

function json(hljs) {
  const LITERALS = {
    literal: 'true false null'
  };
  const ALLOWED_COMMENTS = [
    hljs.C_LINE_COMMENT_MODE,
    hljs.C_BLOCK_COMMENT_MODE
  ];
  const TYPES = [
    hljs.QUOTE_STRING_MODE,
    hljs.C_NUMBER_MODE
  ];
  const VALUE_CONTAINER = {
    end: ',',
    endsWithParent: true,
    excludeEnd: true,
    contains: TYPES,
    keywords: LITERALS
  };
  const OBJECT = {
    begin: /\{/,
    end: /\}/,
    contains: [
      {
        className: 'attr',
        begin: /"/,
        end: /"/,
        contains: [hljs.BACKSLASH_ESCAPE],
        illegal: '\\n'
      },
      hljs.inherit(VALUE_CONTAINER, {
        begin: /:/
      })
    ].concat(ALLOWED_COMMENTS),
    illegal: '\\S'
  };
  const ARRAY = {
    begin: '\\[',
    end: '\\]',
    contains: [hljs.inherit(VALUE_CONTAINER)], // inherit is a workaround for a bug that makes shared modes with endsWithParent compile only the ending of one of the parents
    illegal: '\\S'
  };
  TYPES.push(OBJECT, ARRAY);
  ALLOWED_COMMENTS.forEach(function(rule) {
    TYPES.push(rule);
  });
  return {
    name: 'JSON',
    contains: TYPES,
    keywords: LITERALS,
    illegal: '\\S'
  };
}

module.exports = json;