Json
Last updated at 5:37 pm UTC on 27 August 2017
I support reading and writing JSON (see http://json.org) formatted data - strings, numbers, boolean, nil, arrays and dictionaries.
The implementation is mainly based on RFC 7159 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7159.txt). It has been extended with syntax for invoking a prearranged list of constructors on read objects.
Character encoding is not handled here. That's something you have to do before reading or after writing. Mixed processing is possible, but it's entirely your responsibility to keep things correct.
Instance Variables
stream:
currentCharacter:
arrayBufferStream:
stringBufferStream:
numberParser:
ctorMap:
For parsing, stream has to be initialized by sending #readFrom: to my instance. The parser will pre-read one character, which will be stored in currentCharacter, so the stream is expected to support position manipulation, hence it should be a PositionableStream.
arrayBufferStream is WriteStream on an Array, which holds the values during array parsing (see #readArray). When there's a recursive call, this stream is used as a stack to separate the elements parsed in the previous invocation from the current one.
stringBufferStream is a ReadWriteStream on a String, which holds the currently parsed String (see #readString), the currently parsed number (see #readNumber) or the name of the currently parsed constructor (see #readConstructor). Recursion has no effect on this.
numberParser is a cached instance of ExtendedNumberParser. It's initialized on stringBufferStream, so it can quickly parse the number stored in it.
ctorMap is the Dictionary holding the constructor classes by name.
arrayBufferStream, stringBufferStream and numberParser are initialized lazily, and should not be accessed externally. Since these are shared objects, along with stream and currentCharacter, holding state, therefore a single instance of me shouldn't be used to parse multiple streams at the same time.
For writing, you can use the methods in the class-side rendering category. To convert individual objects to a string, you can use #asJsonString, to serialize it on a stream, you can use #jsonWriteOn:.
See also JsonObject
