docs-v2/content/flux/v0.x/stdlib/json/encode.md

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json.encode() function	The `json.encode()` function converts a value into JSON bytes.	/influxdb/v2.0/reference/flux/functions/json/encode/ /influxdb/v2.0/reference/flux/stdlib/json/encode/ /influxdb/cloud/reference/flux/stdlib/json/encode/	flux_0_x_ref name parent json.encode json	202	type-conversions	0.40.0

The json.encode() function converts a value into JSON bytes.

import "json"

json.encode(v: "some value")
// Returns [34 115 111 109 101 32 118 97 108 117 101 34]

This function encodes Flux types as follows:

• time values in RFC3339 format
• duration values in number of milliseconds since the epoch
• regexp values as their string representation
• bytes values as base64-encoded strings
• function values are not encoded and produce an error

Parameters

v

The value to convert.