# salt.renderers.json5

JSON5 Renderer for Salt

Added in version 2016.3.0.

JSON5 is an unofficial extension to JSON. See http://json5.org/ for more information.

This renderer requires the json5 python bindings, installable via pip.

salt.renderers.json5.render(json_data, saltenv='base', sls='', **kws)

  Accepts JSON as a string or as a file object and runs it through the JSON parser.

  Return type:

    A Python data structure