Assume you have a custom file you want to create an importer for. It could be an .xls file or whatever. In this case we're going to use a JSON file because it's easy but we're going to pick a custom extension to make it easy to tell which files are ours?
Let's assume the format of the JSON file is
{
"someValue": 123,
"someOtherValue": 456.297,
"someBoolValue": true,
"someStringValue": "this is a string",
}