NAME

JSONY - Relaxed JSON with a little bit of YAML

VERSION

This document describes JSONY version 0.1.21.

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use JSONY;
my $data = JSONY->new->load($jsony_string);
            
          

DESCRIPTION

JSONY is a data language that is simlar to JSON, just more chill. All valid JSON is also valid JSONY (and represents the same thing when loaded), but JSONY lets you omit a lot of the syntax that makes JSON a pain to write.

API

JSONY has one instance method: load. You pass it a JSONY string and it returns the loaded Perl data object.

JSONY SYNTAX

Here is some examples of JSONY followed by equivalent JSON:

Words don't need quotes. A list of things is an array:

            

              
              
foo bar baz
[ "foo", "bar", "baz" ]
            
          

Strings with spaces can use single or double quotes:

            

              
              
'foo bar'      # <= This is (a comment indicating) a string
# More commenting
"baz  boom "
[ "foo bar ", "baz  boom " ]
            
          

Top level hashes can be ':' separated pairs or use curlies. Sub hashes require curlies.

            

              
              
foo: { bar baz }
num: -1.2e3
{ "foo": { "bar": "baz" }, "num": -1.2e3 }
            
          

Top level arrays can use '- ' at the start of lines. Those arrays go the end of line. Lines can be continued using a trailing comma. Sub arrays require square brackets.

            

              
              
- array of 4 scalars
- array with [ sub
  array { of
  things }]
- array of 7 things on,
  two lines
[
  [ "array", "of", 4, "scalars" ],
  [ "array", "with", [ "sub", "array", { "of": "things" } ] ],
  [ "array", "of", 7, "things", "on", "two", "lines" ]
]
            
          

NOTE: You may want to look at the tests (especially t/load.t) to see the full abilities of JSONY.

STATUS

JSONY has been in use for well over a year. It seems to working well.

Development people are working on this in #jsony and #pegex in irc.freenode.net. Please drop by.

JSONY.pm is a very simple Pegex-based parser. You can see the quite tiny JSONY grammar here: http://github.com/ingydotnet/jsony-pgx/blob/master/jsony.pgx

http://jsony.org coming soon.

AUTHORS

• Ingy döt Net (ingy) <ingy@cpan.org>

• Matt S. Trout (mst) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2012-2020. Ingy döt Net.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

cpanm JSONY

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install JSONY