Data

Data objects in Midio are essentially a superset of JSON, meaning they support the following data types:

• string

• number

• boolean

• null

• lists

• objects

The above object can be viewed in text mode by clicking the </> button in the top right corner:

As you can see in the above object text view, it is not quite JSON. The object fields (value1, value2, value3, list1 and object1), are identifiers, and not string literals, as JSON would expect. Since the Midio object notation is a JSON superset, it is perfectly ok to change these to string literals, if you want. To the midio runtime, it makes no difference, and when converting to a JSON string using Json Parse, any identifier will be converted to a string literal anyway.

Data inputs

Data objects can also accept inputs, by specifying an identifier where the data object normally expects a value. You can also convert a value to an input by clicking the ->| icon that appears when hovering a value in the object editor.

The input that then appears on the left hand side of the data object can then be connected to any other value, either from a function or another data object.

In the text editor the above object looks like this:

Notice that inputis an identifier, and not a string literal any more.