Problem displaying large arrays

[StephanSchwebel]

I have a json file that basically contains an array of a few hundred thousand bytes (integers). It takes a very long time to view this kind of data in JSToolNpp JSON Viewer. I could not determine the exact time it takes as I usually stop the process after a few minutes.
During this operation Notepad++ itself is not responding (it has "...(Not Responding)" in the title bar).
The attachment (extension was changed to .txt to statisfy github) is a minimal file that demonstrates this problem.
imgage_data.txt

[sunjw]

No, it cannot render such large JSON in tree view.

[StephanSchwebel]

I don't quite understand.
In your judgement, is this issue a bug?
Are you considering doing anything about it?

Personally I don't think the behaviour is acceptable, considering that the plugin promises:
"A JSON tree viewer. The JSON tree viewer for Notepad++ can handle >10MB JSON file easily"
Also making the the parent application inoperable for long periods is not good at all.

[sunjw]

No, it's because tree view control used in NPP. It cannot handle such many nodes, JSToolNpp can analyze even larger JSON file, but tree view control cannot handle that.

[molsonkiko]

FWIW my JsonTools plugin has come up with a pretty reasonable and easy-to-implement solution for dealing with such large arrays, namely to only include 10,000 evenly-spaced elements from very large JSON objects or arrays. This makes the tree view efficient in all cases. For example, for a 1 million-element array, the tree view would display every 100th element in the array. It's not perfect, but it's the only solution I could come up with that avoids eating all available memory and hanging forever.