tx_metadata: How to interpret a CBOR string

Question

In the document:

https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/reference/tx-metadata.md

We are told: "JSON strings are represented as CBOR strings" How can I interpret these?

The source of th eformat of those appears to be here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7049

Here is an example of one from a transaction in the tx_metadata table of cardano-db-sync

d8799f581c25fa506339b24dc4e1a643637325e700ae498e646746a5426739f2

...there is this: https://github.com/CardanoSharp/CBOR

...and this: https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/reference/tx-metadata.md

...and this: https://input-output-hk.github.io/cardano-wallet/user-guide/common-use-cases/TxMetadata

Answer 1

A good tool for manually analyzing CBOR is https://cbor.nemo157.com/

What they probably meant by "JSON strings are represented as CBOR strings" is that typical JSON objects can be represented in tx-metadata using CBOR