The JSON Library

Overview

The JSON Library provides a representation of the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) with support for parsing, printing, and manipulating JSON values as trees. There is also support for processing JSON data as streams using a "SAX-style" API.

Contents

Tree-based API

structure JSON

Defines the representation of JSON values as an SML datatype.

structure JSONParser

A parser for JSON input.

structure JSONPrinter

A printer for JSON output.

structure JSONUtil

A collection of utility functions for working with JSON values.

structure JSONDecode

A collection of combinators for decoding JSON values.

Stream-based API

structure JSONStreamParser

A stream (or event) based parser for JSON input.

signature JSON_STREAM_OUTPUT

The interface to a stream-based printer for JSON output.

structure JSONBufferPrinter

A stream-based printer for JSON output to character buffers.

structure JSONStreamPrinter

A stream-based printer for JSON output to text files.

Usage

For SML/NJ, include $/json-lib.cm in your CM file.

For use in MLton, include $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/JSON/json-lib.mlb in your MLB file.