Introduction

JSON++ is a light-weight JSON parser, writer and reader written in C++.
JSON++ can also convert JSON documents into lossless XML documents.

Contributors

http://github.com/hjiang
http://github.com/elanthis
http://github.com/r-lyeh

Why another JSON parser?

Perhaps because web service clients are usually written in dynamic languages these days, none of the existing C++ JSON parsers suit my needs very well, so I wrote one that I used in another project. My goals for JSON++ are:

• Efficient in both memory and speed.
• No third party dependencies. JSON++ only depends on the standard C++ library.
• Cross platform.
• Robust.
• Small and convenient API. Most of the time, you only need to call one function and two function templates.
• Easy to integrate. JSON++ only has one source file and one header file. Just compile the source file and link with your program.
• Able to construct documents dinamically.
• JSON writer: write documents in JSON format.
• XML writer: convert documents to JSONx format. See http://goo.gl/I3cxs for details.
• XML writer: convert documents to JXML format. See https://github.com/r-lyeh/JXML for details.
• XML writer: convert documents to JXMLex format. See https://github.com/r-lyeh/JXMLex for details.
• XML writer: convert documents to tagged XML format. See hjiang#12 for details.

Configuration

Strict/permissive parsing

JSONxx can parse JSON documents both in strict or permissive mode.

When jsonxx::Settings::Parser is set to Strict, JSONxx parser will accept:

• Fully conformant JSON documents only

When jsonxx::Settings::Parser is set to Permissive, JSONxx parser will accept:

• Fully conformant JSON documents
• Ending commas in arrays and objects: { "array": [0,1,2,], }
• Single quoted strings: ['hello', "world"]
• C++ style comments: { "width": 320, "height": 240 } //Picture details

Default value is Permissive.

Assertions

JSONxx uses internally JSONXX_ASSERT(...) macro that works both in debug and release mode. Set jsonxx::Settings::Assertions value to Disabled to disable assertions.

Default value is Enabled.

Usage

The following snippets are from one of the unit tests. They are quite self-descriptive.

using namespace std;
using namespace jsonxx;

string teststr(
        "{"
        "  \"foo\" : 1,"
        "  \"bar\" : false,"
        "  \"person\" : {\"name\" : \"GWB\", \"age\" : 60,},"
        "  \"data\": [\"abcd\", 42],"
        "}"
);

// Parse string or stream
Object o;
assert(o.parse(teststr));

// Validation. Checking for JSON types and values as well
assert(1 == o.get<Number>("foo"));
assert(o.has<Boolean>("bar"));
assert(o.has<Object>("person"));
assert(o.get<Object>("person").has<Number>("age"));
assert(o.has<Array>("data"));
assert(o.get<Array>("data").get<Number>(1) == 42);
assert(o.get<Array>("data").get<String>(0) == "abcd");
assert(!o.has<Number>("data"));
cout << o.json() << endl;                     // JSON output
cout << o.xml(JSONx) << endl;                 // JSON to XML conversion (JSONx subtype)
cout << o.xml(JXML) << endl;                  // JSON to XML conversion (JXML subtype)
cout << o.xml(JXMLex) << endl;                // JSON to XML conversion (JXMLex subtype)

// Generate JSON document dinamically
using namespace std;
using namespace jsonxx;
Array a;
a << 123;
a << "hello world";
a << 3.1415;
a << 99.95f;
a << 'h';
a << Object("key", "value");
Object o;
o << "key1" << "value";
o << "key2" << 123;
o << "key3" << a;
cout << o.json() << endl;

To do

• Custom JSON comments (C style /**/) when permissive parsing is enabled.