Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Simplified JSON notation

JSON is human-editable, but not necessarily human-friendly. A typical JSON configuration file:

{
    "ip" : "127.0.0.1",
    "port" : 666
}

A more Lua-inspired syntax is friendlier:

ip = "127.0.0.1"
port = 666

This syntax corresponds 1-1 with regular JSON syntax and can be trivially converted back and forth with the following rules:

  • Assume an object definition at the root level (no need to surround entire file with { } ).
  • Commas are optional
  • Quotes around object keys are optional if the keys are valid identifiers
  • Replace : with =

On the other hand, all syntax wars are pointless and will only send us into an early grave.

10 comments:

  1. So did you end up with custom JSON C++ parser?

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  2. Yes, we are using a custom parser for our special format.

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  3. Would you mind sharing the code of your parser?
    I'm very interested on it!

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  4. He has uploaded his utility code (including parser) to github:
    https://github.com/niklasfrykholm/nflibs

    There is a one issue reported with the grow operation, but you can fix it yourself.

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