Mercury-JSON

mercury_json is a Mercury library for reading and writing JSON from character streams.

Features

• conforms to RFC 8259
• optionally allows single and multiline comments in JSON
• optionally allows single trailing commas in JSON objects and arrays
• optionally allows numbers to be -Infinity / Infinity
• optionally allows single quoted strings
• user configurable behaviour for handling repeated object members
• marshaling and unmarshaling of Mercury data to and from JSON
• user configurable maximum nesting depth limit

License

mercury_json is licensed under a simple 2-clause BSD style license. See the file COPYING for details.

Installation

Check the values in the file Make.options to see if they agree with your system, then do:

$ make install

You can also override values in Make.options on the command line, for example

$ make INSTALL_PREFIX=/foo/bar install

causes the library to be installed in the directory /foo/bar.

Testing

To run the regression test suite, do:

$ make runtests

Examples

The samples directory contains some example programs that demonstrate different features of the library.

Mercury 20.06.X Compatibility

The code on the master branch is not compatible with Mercury 20.06.X. If you require a version of mercury_json that works with Mercury 20.06.X, then checkout the mercury_20_06 branch.

Mercury 20.01.X Compatibility

The code on the master branch is not compatible with Mercury 20.01.X. If you require a version of mercury_json that works with Mercury 20.01.X, then checkout the mercury_20_01 branch.

Mercury 14.01.X Compatibility

The code on the master branch is not compatible with Mercury 14.01.X. If you require a version of mercury_json that works with Mercury 14.01.X, then checkout the mercury_14_01 branch.

Author

Julien Fischer [email protected]