zig/lib/std / json.zig

JSON parsing and stringification conforming to RFC 8259. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259 The low-level Scanner API produces Tokens from an input slice or successive slices of inputs, The Reader API connects a std.io.Reader to a Scanner. The high-level parseFromSlice and parseFromTokenSource deserialize a JSON document into a Zig type. Parse into a dynamically-typed Value to load any JSON value for runtime inspection. The low-level writeStream emits syntax-conformant JSON tokens to a std.io.Writer. The high-level stringify serializes a Zig or Value type into JSON.

//! JSON parsing and stringification conforming to RFC 8259. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259
//!
//! The low-level `Scanner` API produces `Token`s from an input slice or successive slices of inputs,
//! The `Reader` API connects a `std.io.Reader` to a `Scanner`.
//!
//! The high-level `parseFromSlice` and `parseFromTokenSource` deserialize a JSON document into a Zig type.
//! Parse into a dynamically-typed `Value` to load any JSON value for runtime inspection.
//!
//! The low-level `writeStream` emits syntax-conformant JSON tokens to a `std.io.Writer`.
//! The high-level `stringify` serializes a Zig or `Value` type into JSON.

Test: Scanner


const testing = @import("std").testing;
const ArrayList = @import("std").ArrayList;

Test: parseFromSlice


test Scanner {
    var scanner = Scanner.initCompleteInput(testing.allocator, "{\"foo\": 123}\n");
    defer scanner.deinit();
    try testing.expectEqual(Token.object_begin, try scanner.next());
    try testing.expectEqualSlices(u8, "foo", (try scanner.next()).string);
    try testing.expectEqualSlices(u8, "123", (try scanner.next()).number);
    try testing.expectEqual(Token.object_end, try scanner.next());
    try testing.expectEqual(Token.end_of_document, try scanner.next());
}

Test: Value


test parseFromSlice {
    var parsed_str = try parseFromSlice([]const u8, testing.allocator, "\"a\\u0020b\"", .{});
    defer parsed_str.deinit();
    try testing.expectEqualSlices(u8, "a b", parsed_str.value);

Test: writeStream


    const T = struct { a: i32 = -1, b: [2]u8 };
    var parsed_struct = try parseFromSlice(T, testing.allocator, "{\"b\":\"xy\"}", .{});
    defer parsed_struct.deinit();
    try testing.expectEqual(@as(i32, -1), parsed_struct.value.a); // default value
    try testing.expectEqualSlices(u8, "xy", parsed_struct.value.b[0..]);
}

Test: stringify


test Value {
    var parsed = try parseFromSlice(Value, testing.allocator, "{\"anything\": \"goes\"}", .{});
    defer parsed.deinit();
    try testing.expectEqualSlices(u8, "goes", parsed.value.object.get("anything").?.string);
}

ObjectMap

json/dynamic.zig

test writeStream {
    var out = ArrayList(u8).init(testing.allocator);
    defer out.deinit();
    var write_stream = writeStream(out.writer(), .{ .whitespace = .indent_2 });
    defer write_stream.deinit();
    try write_stream.beginObject();
    try write_stream.objectField("foo");
    try write_stream.write(123);
    try write_stream.endObject();
    const expected =
        \\{
        \\  "foo": 123
        \\}
    ;
    try testing.expectEqualSlices(u8, expected, out.items);
}

Array

json/dynamic.zig

test stringify {
    var out = ArrayList(u8).init(testing.allocator);
    defer out.deinit();

Value

json/dynamic.zig

    const T = struct { a: i32, b: []const u8 };
    try stringify(T{ .a = 123, .b = "xy" }, .{}, out.writer());
    try testing.expectEqualSlices(u8, "{\"a\":123,\"b\":\"xy\"}", out.items);
}

ArrayHashMap

json/hashmap.zig

pub const ObjectMap = @import("json/dynamic.zig").ObjectMap;
pub const Array = @import("json/dynamic.zig").Array;
pub const Value = @import("json/dynamic.zig").Value;

validate

json/scanner.zig

pub const ArrayHashMap = @import("json/hashmap.zig").ArrayHashMap;

Error

json/scanner.zig

pub const validate = @import("json/scanner.zig").validate;
pub const Error = @import("json/scanner.zig").Error;

reader

json/scanner.zig
pub const reader = @import("json/scanner.zig").reader;

default_buffer_size

json/scanner.zig
pub const default_buffer_size = @import("json/scanner.zig").default_buffer_size;

Token

json/scanner.zig
pub const Token = @import("json/scanner.zig").Token;

TokenType

json/scanner.zig
pub const TokenType = @import("json/scanner.zig").TokenType;

Diagnostics

json/scanner.zig
pub const Diagnostics = @import("json/scanner.zig").Diagnostics;

AllocWhen

json/scanner.zig
pub const AllocWhen = @import("json/scanner.zig").AllocWhen;

default_max_value_len

json/scanner.zig
pub const default_max_value_len = @import("json/scanner.zig").default_max_value_len;

Reader

json/scanner.zig
pub const Reader = @import("json/scanner.zig").Reader;

Scanner

json/scanner.zig
pub const Scanner = @import("json/scanner.zig").Scanner;

isNumberFormattedLikeAnInteger

json/scanner.zig
pub const isNumberFormattedLikeAnInteger = @import("json/scanner.zig").isNumberFormattedLikeAnInteger;

ParseOptions

json/static.zig

pub const ParseOptions = @import("json/static.zig").ParseOptions;

Parsed

json/static.zig
pub const Parsed = @import("json/static.zig").Parsed;

parseFromSlice

json/static.zig
pub const parseFromSlice = @import("json/static.zig").parseFromSlice;

parseFromSliceLeaky

json/static.zig
pub const parseFromSliceLeaky = @import("json/static.zig").parseFromSliceLeaky;

parseFromTokenSource

json/static.zig
pub const parseFromTokenSource = @import("json/static.zig").parseFromTokenSource;

parseFromTokenSourceLeaky

json/static.zig
pub const parseFromTokenSourceLeaky = @import("json/static.zig").parseFromTokenSourceLeaky;

innerParse

json/static.zig
pub const innerParse = @import("json/static.zig").innerParse;

parseFromValue

json/static.zig
pub const parseFromValue = @import("json/static.zig").parseFromValue;

parseFromValueLeaky

json/static.zig
pub const parseFromValueLeaky = @import("json/static.zig").parseFromValueLeaky;

innerParseFromValue

json/static.zig
pub const innerParseFromValue = @import("json/static.zig").innerParseFromValue;

ParseError

json/static.zig
pub const ParseError = @import("json/static.zig").ParseError;

ParseFromValueError

json/static.zig
pub const ParseFromValueError = @import("json/static.zig").ParseFromValueError;

StringifyOptions

json/stringify.zig

pub const StringifyOptions = @import("json/stringify.zig").StringifyOptions;

stringify

json/stringify.zig
pub const stringify = @import("json/stringify.zig").stringify;

stringifyMaxDepth

json/stringify.zig
pub const stringifyMaxDepth = @import("json/stringify.zig").stringifyMaxDepth;

stringifyArbitraryDepth

json/stringify.zig
pub const stringifyArbitraryDepth = @import("json/stringify.zig").stringifyArbitraryDepth;

stringifyAlloc

json/stringify.zig
pub const stringifyAlloc = @import("json/stringify.zig").stringifyAlloc;

writeStream

json/stringify.zig
pub const writeStream = @import("json/stringify.zig").writeStream;

writeStreamMaxDepth

json/stringify.zig
pub const writeStreamMaxDepth = @import("json/stringify.zig").writeStreamMaxDepth;

writeStreamArbitraryDepth

json/stringify.zig
pub const writeStreamArbitraryDepth = @import("json/stringify.zig").writeStreamArbitraryDepth;

WriteStream

json/stringify.zig
pub const WriteStream = @import("json/stringify.zig").WriteStream;

encodeJsonString

json/stringify.zig
pub const encodeJsonString = @import("json/stringify.zig").encodeJsonString;

encodeJsonStringChars

json/stringify.zig
pub const encodeJsonStringChars = @import("json/stringify.zig").encodeJsonStringChars;

parse


// Deprecations
pub const parse = @compileError("Deprecated; use parseFromSlice() or parseFromTokenSource() instead.");

parseFree

pub const parseFree = @compileError("Deprecated; call Parsed(T).deinit() instead.");

Parser

pub const Parser = @compileError("Deprecated; use parseFromSlice(Value) or parseFromTokenSource(Value) instead.");

ValueTree

pub const ValueTree = @compileError("Deprecated; use Parsed(Value) instead.");

StreamingParser

pub const StreamingParser = @compileError("Deprecated; use json.Scanner or json.Reader instead.");

TokenStream

pub const TokenStream = @compileError("Deprecated; use json.Scanner or json.Reader instead.");

test {
    _ = @import("json/test.zig");
    _ = @import("json/scanner.zig");
    _ = @import("json/dynamic.zig");
    _ = @import("json/hashmap.zig");
    _ = @import("json/static.zig");
    _ = @import("json/stringify.zig");
    _ = @import("json/JSONTestSuite_test.zig");
}