How to format notification service data?

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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I’d like to do some tests of notification with graphic attachments.
I’ve read this page: https://companion.home-assistant.io/en/notifications/attachments

I’m testing with the /developer-tools/service at present and can send a simple message which works just fine:

{"message":"hello"}

Being a newcomer to JSON/YAML … how do I convert the below into that “single line” command so that I can test?

- alias: Notify Mobile app
    trigger:
      ...
    action:
      service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
      data:
        message: "Something happened at home!"
        data:
          attachment:
            url: "https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/blob/dfd755bd8fb86dc2fdde1c70a8fc2fbcbec8a6da/logo-round-192x192.png?raw=true"
            content-type: png
            hide-thumbnail: false
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I you’re lazy you can alway try to copy and paste into an online converter like this one:

https://www.json2yaml.com/convert-yaml-to-json

Copying and pasting this:

data:
  message: "Something happened at home!"
  data:
    attachment:
      url: "https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/blob/dfd755bd8fb86dc2fdde1c70a8fc2fbcbec8a6da/logo-round-192x192.png?raw=true"
      content-type: png
      hide-thumbnail: false

will give you this:

{
  "data": {
    "message": "Something happened at home!",
    "data": {
      "attachment": {
        "url": "https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/blob/dfd755bd8fb86dc2fdde1c70a8fc2fbcbec8a6da/logo-round-192x192.png?raw=true",
        "content-type": "png",
        "hide-thumbnail": false
      }
    }
  }
}

When you run this to a JSON formatter like

You will get this:

{"data":{"message":"Something happened at home!","data":{"attachment":{"url":"https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/blob/dfd755bd8fb86dc2fdde1c70a8fc2fbcbec8a6da/logo-round-192x192.png?raw=true","content-type":"png","hide-thumbnail":false}}}}
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Thanks very much!

4

Thank you Metbril for finding this nice tool, I also found another JSON tool on the same site which helps to view json in tree view. JSON Parser

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