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DEPRECATED: Use `setJsonFormat` instead.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_recordjsonformatter.h>`

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int
setFormat(std::string_view const& format);
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== Description

Set the message format specification (see {`Record Format Specification`}) of this record JSON formatter to the specified JSON‐syntax `format`. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value otherwise (if `format` is not valid JSON _or_ not a JSON conforming to the expected schema).


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