A simple library to implement memory-efficient JSON serialization to a PHP stream.

Usage

Simple, to STDOUT

<?php
require('vendor/autoload.php');
use wrossmann\json_stream\JsonStream;

$js = new JsonStream();
$js->encode('foo');

Fancy, to anything

The first constructor parameter is the stream handle, the second is the flags argument you would otherwise pass to json_encode().

The real benefit to this is being able to append additional stream filters, such as gzip compression.

$handle = fopen('zlib://foo.json.gz', 'wb');
$js = new JsonStream($handle, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
$js->encode('foo');

Anticipated Memory Usage

Non-complex types are passed directly to json_encode() to ensure that they are properly encoded, so the maximum additional memory required should be roughly that of the largest string contained in the object you are serializing.

Caveats

• Circular references are neither detected nor handled.
• No pretty-printing. Ugly-printing only.