Poco c++ JSON useage

[devdavid]

Can any body instruct me on how the Poco c++ JSON works? http://pocoproject.org/docs-1.5.0/Poco.JSON.html

Previously i've used JsonReader: http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... eader.html and JsonToken

The Pococ++ library doesnt seem to have correspodning objects. How do i for example use the json parser to create a object name consisting the json value at the tag name?

Am i supposed to write a class inheriting the handler class containing if methods and such for parsing out parts of the json?

I want multiple objects to be created on parsing, for example LocationObject, NameObject...

Best Regards

[rakesh]

Take a look at the JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.cpp file in the source tree. It is fairly simple higher level DOM style API than the SAX style API you linked to.

[alex]

I would not agree that Poco::JSON is DOM. It is actually SAX-ish in it's core because even the parsing is done through DefaultHandler (probably not the best name). You can write custom SAX-like handlers for various functionality, I'm currrently working on a pretty-print one.

Here's the example for the OP:

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std::string json = "{ \"test\" : { \"property\" : \"value\" } }";
Parser parser;
DefaultHandler handler;
parser.setHandler(&handler);
parser.parse(json);
Var result = handler.result();
Object::Ptr object = result.extract<Object::Ptr>();
Var test = object->get("test");
object = test.extract<Object::Ptr>();
test = object->get("property");
std::string value = test.convert<std::string>();

[devdavid]

Thank you so much, I try to parse:

"{\"Store\":[ {\"test\" : \"firststring\"}, { \"test1\" : [1, 2, 3], \"test2\" : 4 } ]}"
This throws me an error.

i actually need to parse something with more hierarchy levels like : "{\"RefList\":{\"Ref\":[ {\"test\" : \"firststring\"}, { \"test1\" : [1, 2, 3], \"test2\" : 4 } ]}}". Again error.

Is there a bug or something when more levels are added?

Thank You so much!

[alex]

What kind of error? Your examples parse fine:

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std::string json = "{\"RefList\":{\"Ref\":[ {\"test\" : \"firststring\"}, { \"test1\" : [1, 2, 3], \"test2\" : 4 } ]}}";
Parser parser;
Var result;
ParseHandler handler;
parser.setHandler(&handler);
parser.parse(json);
result = handler.result();
assert(result.type() == typeid(Object::Ptr));

[devdavid]

Hi,
It seems that the line throwing an exception is the last one in:

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    std::string json = "{\"RefList\":{\"Ref\":[ {\"test\" : \"firststring\"}, { \"test1\" : [1, 2, 3], \"test2\" : 4 } ]}}";
    Parser parser;
    DefaultHandler handler;
    parser.setHandler(&handler);
    parser.parse(json);
    Var result = handler.result();
    RefListComplexType::Refs = result.extract<Array::Ptr>();

Can't the hierarchy be extracted in this way?

The exception message in XCode is:
libc++abi.dylib: terminate called throwing an exception

[alex]

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RefListComplexType::Refs = result.extract<Array::Ptr>();

You are trying to extract array but your JSON is an object.