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rippled/modules/beast_core/json/beast_JSON.h
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/*
This file is part of Beast: https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast
Copyright 2013, Vinnie Falco <vinnie.falco@gmail.com>
Portions of this file are from JUCE.
Copyright (c) 2013 - Raw Material Software Ltd.
Please visit http://www.juce.com
Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL , DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
//==============================================================================
#ifndef BEAST_JSON_H_INCLUDED
#define BEAST_JSON_H_INCLUDED
#include "../misc/beast_Result.h"
#include "../containers/beast_Variant.h"
class InputStream;
class OutputStream;
class File;
//==============================================================================
/**
Contains static methods for converting JSON-formatted text to and from var objects.
The var class is structurally compatible with JSON-formatted data, so these
functions allow you to parse JSON into a var object, and to convert a var
object to JSON-formatted text.
@see var
*/
class BEAST_API JSON
{
public:
//==============================================================================
/** Parses a string of JSON-formatted text, and returns a result code containing
any parse errors.
This will return the parsed structure in the parsedResult parameter, and will
return a Result object to indicate whether parsing was successful, and if not,
it will contain an error message.
If you're not interested in the error message, you can use one of the other
shortcut parse methods, which simply return a var::null if the parsing fails.
*/
static Result parse (const String& text, var& parsedResult);
/** Attempts to parse some JSON-formatted text, and returns the result as a var object.
If the parsing fails, this simply returns var::null - if you need to find out more
detail about the parse error, use the alternative parse() method which returns a Result.
*/
static var parse (const String& text);
/** Attempts to parse some JSON-formatted text from a file, and returns the result
as a var object.
Note that this is just a short-cut for reading the entire file into a string and
parsing the result.
If the parsing fails, this simply returns var::null - if you need to find out more
detail about the parse error, use the alternative parse() method which returns a Result.
*/
static var parse (const File& file);
/** Attempts to parse some JSON-formatted text from a stream, and returns the result
as a var object.
Note that this is just a short-cut for reading the entire stream into a string and
parsing the result.
If the parsing fails, this simply returns var::null - if you need to find out more
detail about the parse error, use the alternative parse() method which returns a Result.
*/
static var parse (InputStream& input);
//==============================================================================
/** Returns a string which contains a JSON-formatted representation of the var object.
If allOnOneLine is true, the result will be compacted into a single line of text
with no carriage-returns. If false, it will be laid-out in a more human-readable format.
@see writeToStream
*/
static String toString (const var& objectToFormat,
bool allOnOneLine = false);
/** Writes a JSON-formatted representation of the var object to the given stream.
If allOnOneLine is true, the result will be compacted into a single line of text
with no carriage-returns. If false, it will be laid-out in a more human-readable format.
@see toString
*/
static void writeToStream (OutputStream& output,
const var& objectToFormat,
bool allOnOneLine = false);
private:
//==============================================================================
JSON(); // This class can't be instantiated - just use its static methods.
};
#endif // BEAST_JSON_H_INCLUDED