GahoodSON is a very minimal JSON parser written in C. It is intended to be a fast cross-platform solution to parsing JSON files for any given application.
On a Unix-based environment, just use cmake and make to create the library binary.
$ cmake . && make
This will produce the libGahoodSON.a binary that you can now include in your project. Be sure to also grab the GahoodSON.h header in the include to your project header directory.
On windows, you will follow the same step, but the output will be a different file.
-
To Create a json object that contains all of the data, call the following:
json * <variable_name_here> = gahoodson_create_from_file(<file_path_here>);
or
json * <variable_name_here> = gahoodson_create_from_string(<passed_json_string>); -
ALWAYS call the following when you are FINISHED using the parsed data object:
gahoodson_delete(<json_object_you_made>); -
The "json" struct stores all the objects, pairs, and lists in the json file.
-
Pairs are just pairs and their values.
-
Objects have a key id and then carry other objects, lists or pairs.
-
Lists have list elements and nothing else. Those list elements have no key id but will carry objects, lists, or pairs just like objects
-
json_string data type contains a null-terminated string as "key" and the size of the string
-
json_int carries just a 32-bit integer value.
-
json_bool carries an 8-bit value that SHOULD be only 1 or 0. 1 means TRUE, 0 means FALSE.
-
You can traverse the json by using the num_of_ int stored in each json list, list element, or object. It is recommended to make a wrapper around this library, but that's up to you.