CJSON

cjson is a json parser written in C for serializing and deserializing json data into a custom ordered map.

Use

Much to your dismay this project is currently unusable. The idea is it will provide an api with functions that convert json text input to a C ordered map. Right now I am planning on simply having one header file and one static library to add to a project.

Supported Platforms

I am building this on linux but, out of the goodness of my heart, am considering also making is compatable with Windows.

File Structure

The file structure of the project is as follows:

• root
  • src
    • C source files for the project
  • tests
    • bin
      • binary files for all unit tests (probably will gitignore these at some point)
    • jsonSrc
      • json source files for all unit tests
    • lexTests
      • C source code for lexer unit tests
    • parserTests
      • C source code for parser unit tests
    • mapTests
      • C source code for map unit tests
    • test.sh (script to run unit tests)
  • build.sh (script to build the entire project including unit tests) (I never use this).

There are two main directories: src, and tests. src contains the project's source code. tests contains unit tests written in C with a bash script to run one or all of them. The tests directory also contains a bin directory for the unit test executables that the bash script will run.

Building From Source

You may be able to simply run build.sh but I honestly don't know if it still works.

1. Clone the repo
2. Make a build directory
3. From the root directory run cmake -S src -B path/to/build
4. From the root directory run cmake --build path/to/build
5. Make a directory tests/build
6. From the tests directory run cmake -S src -B path/to/build
7. Run cmake --build path/to/build

To use this, you need two files: cjson.h (in the src directory) and (on linux) libcjson.a (in the main build directory). Include the header file in your project and link the archive.