Stdlib module `json/stringify.vitl`

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Family: json

Kind: public stdlib surface

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Overview

Field	Value
Path	`json/stringify.vitl`
Family	`json`
Kind	public stdlib surface
Line count	68
Declared procedures	10
Declared forms/picks	2

`json/stringify.vitl` is a public stdlib surface inside the `json` family. It should be read as one focused slice of the broader family responsibility: Structured JSON surfaces including parse, parser, types, builder, schema, stringify, and serialize.

Purpose

This file should be chosen because of responsibility, not because its name “sounds close enough”. Inside the json family, it carries one focused part of the contract and keeps that responsibility separate from neighboring concerns.

Use this module when structured exchange format is part of the feature, not just an incidental output.
A build plan can be validated as domain data first and then exported to JSON in a separate step.
A parser page should say how syntax becomes JSON values before serialization details appear.

Top-level API inventory

Surface	Items
Procedures	`json_stringify`, `json_stringify_pretty`, `json_is_valid`, `json_format`, `json_minify`, `json_value_type`, `json_stringify_version`, `json_stringify_ready`, `json_stringify_manifest`, `json_stringify_selftest`
Forms	`JsonStringifyManifest`
Picks	`JSONValue`
Constants	none declared at top level

Imported surfaces

This file does not advertise a top-level `use` surface in its opening declarations. That often means it is either self-contained or an aggregation layer.

How to use this module

Start by reading the file as an ownership boundary. Ask three questions: what enters this module, what stable types or procedures it exports, and what adjacent module should stay outside of it.

Open the family page first to understand why this area of the stdlib exists.
Read the source excerpt below to see the namespace, imports, and first declared surfaces.
Check the neighbor list to avoid coupling this module with an adjacent responsibility by habit.

Source shape

space vitte/json/stringify
   JSON Serialization Module
   ========================================================= >>>
pick JSONValue {
  JsonNull,
  JsonBool(value: int),
  JsonNumber(value: f64),
  JsonString(value: string),
  JsonArray(items: [JSONValue]),
  JsonObject(keys: [string])

The excerpt is not meant to replace the file. It exists to make the module recognizable at first glance, the same way a Wikipedia infobox helps the reader orient before reading the whole article.

Integration boundaries

Within json, this file should remain focused. If a future helper changes the host boundary, scheduling boundary, or data-shape boundary, it probably belongs in a neighbor module instead of being added here by convenience.

Family responsibility: Structured JSON surfaces including parse, parser, types, builder, schema, stringify, and serialize.
Family architecture role: Use `json` when data must cross a structured textual boundary. This family owns JSON shape and conversion, not business validation itself.

Stdlib module json/stringify.vitl