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layout: docs
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page_title: jsonencode - Functions - Configuration Language
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sidebar_title: jsonencode
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description: The jsonencode function encodes a given value as a JSON string.
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---
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# `jsonencode` Function
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`jsonencode` encodes a given value to a string using JSON syntax.
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The JSON encoding is defined in [RFC 7159](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159).
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This function maps
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[Packer language values](/docs/from-1.5/expressions#types-and-values)
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to JSON values in the following way:
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| Packer type | JSON type |
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| ------------- | --------- |
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| `string` | String |
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| `number` | Number |
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| `bool` | Bool |
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| `list(...)` | Array |
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| `set(...)` | Array |
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| `tuple(...)` | Array |
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| `map(...)` | Object |
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| `object(...)` | Object |
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| Null value | `null` |
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Since the JSON format cannot fully represent all of the Packer language
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types, passing the `jsonencode` result to `jsondecode` will not produce an
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identical value, but the automatic type conversion rules mean that this is
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rarely a problem in practice.
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## Examples
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```shell-session
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> jsonencode({"hello"="world"})
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{"hello":"world"}
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```
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## Related Functions
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- [`jsondecode`](/docs/from-1.5/functions/encoding/jsondecode) performs the opposite operation, _decoding_
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a JSON string to obtain its represented value.
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