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- Jiffy - JSON NIFs for Erlang
- ============================
-
- A JSON parser as a NIF. This is a complete rewrite of the work I did
- in EEP0018 that was based on Yajl. This new version is a hand crafted
- state machine that does its best to be as quick and efficient as
- possible while not placing any constraints on the parsed JSON.
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- Jiffy's API is nearly an exact duplicate of the EEP0018 behaviour
- except for one small difference. `jiffy:encode/1` now returns an
- iolist (specifically, a binary or list of binaries). This is to
- allow for the encoding of large numbers.
-
-
- Eshell V5.8.2 (abort with ^G)
- 1> jiffy:decode(<<"{\"foo\": \"bar\"}">>).
- {ok,{[{<<"foo">>,<<"bar">>}]}}
- 2> Doc = {[{foo, [<<"bing">>, 2.3, true]}]}.
- {[{foo,[<<"bing">>,2.3,true]}]}
- 3> jiffy:encode(Doc).
- {ok,<<"{\"foo\":[\"bing\",2.2999999999999998224,true]}">>}
-
-
- Data Format
- -----------
-
- JSON -> Erlang
- null -> null
- true -> true
- false -> false
- 1 -> 1
- 1.25 -> 1.25
- [] -> []
- [true, 1.0] -> [true, 1.0]
- {} -> {[]}
- {"foo": "bar"} -> {[{<<"foo">>, <<"bar">>}]}
-
- Improvements over EEP0018
- -------------------------
-
- Jiffy should be in all ways an improvemnt over EEP0018. It no longer
- imposes limits on the nesting depth. It is capable of encoding and
- decoding large numbers and t does quite a bit more checking for validity
- of valid UTF-8 in strings.
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