mergJSON

Type

library

Description

mergJSON is an external for encoding and decoding JSON.

This external has been implemented to encode/decode UTF8 JSON to a LiveCode array as quickly as possible. Currently externals can not work with multi-dimensional LiveCode arrays so the intention is it is used with two functions like this:

    function ArrayToJSON pArray,pForceRootType,pPretty
        repeat for each key tKey in pArray
            if pArray[tKey] is an array then
                put \"}\"&ArrayToJSON(pArray[tKey]) into pArray[tKey]
            end if
        end repeat
        return(mergJSONEncode(\"pArray\",pForceRootType,pPretty))
    end ArrayToJSON

function JSONToArray pJSON

        local tArray,tKeys
        repeat for each line tKey in mergJSONDecode(pJSON,\"tArray\")
            put JSONToArray(tArray[tKey]) into tArray[tKey]
        end repeat
        return tArray
    end JSONToArray

Associated Syntax

Function

Name	Summary	Syntax
mergJSONEncode	The function encodes an array as JSON.	mergJSONEncode(<pVariableName>, [<pForceRootType>, <pPretty>])
mergJSONDecode	The function decodes JSON to an array.	mergJSONDecode(<pJSON>, <pVariableName>)