[psychonic]

JSON encoding and decoding in pure sourcepawn, directly ported from Exolent[jNr]'s pawn version.

See link for documentation.

[FaTony]

Next: JVM in pure SP. Oh yeah!

[shavit]

Do you mean that if I take a plugin from AMXX that use JSON I can use it to get the same results in SourceMod?

[DarthNinja]

Originally Posted by psychonic JSON encoding and decoding in pure sourcepawn.

Delicious!

[alongub]

I've been searching this for a while. Thanks! Is it faster than the C++ extension? Any benchmarks?

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by alongub I've been searching this for a while. Thanks! Is it faster than the C++ extension? Any benchmarks?

No, it's probably much slower, though possibly not enough to matter.

You'd have to use the SM profiler.

[Thrawn2]

Huhm, error or on purpose?

JSON_FUNC bool:json_get_string(JSONbject, const String:key[], output[], len)
should be
JSON_FUNC bool:json_get_string(JSONbject, const String:key[], Stringutput[], len)

edit: also glad that the extension and this include have no clashing names.
edit2: looks like this does not work at all.

PHP Code:

#pragma semicolon 1
#include <sourcemod>
#include <json>

public OnPluginStart() {
    TestJsonDecode("{\"integer\": 1}");
    TestJsonDecode("{\"string\": \"Hello World\"}");
    TestJsonDecode("{\"bool\": true}");
    TestJsonDecode("{\"null\": null}");
}

public TestJsonDecode(const String:sJSON[]) {
    LogMessage("Trying to decode: %s", sJSON);

    new JSON:hJson = json_decode(sJSON);
    if(hJson == JSON_INVALID) {
        LogMessage("--> Failed");
    } else {
        LogMessage("--> Passed");
    }
} 


gives me:

L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] Trying to decode: {"integer": 1}
L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] --> Failed
L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] Trying to decode: {"string": "Hello World"}
L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] --> Failed
L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] Trying to decode: {"bool": true}
L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] --> Failed
L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] Trying to decode: {"null": null}
L 03/16/2013 - 16:48:50: [tJsonTest.smx] --> Failed
[SM] Plugin tJsonTest.smx reloaded successfully.

[Nikkii]

A little debugging shows that the decoding isn't working right

L 03/16/2013 - 18:16:03: [testjson.smx] Trying to decode: {"string": "Hello World"}
L 03/16/2013 - 18:16:03: [testjson.smx] Created trie
L 03/16/2013 - 18:16:03: [testjson.smx] Decoding dictionary, json is ¬
L 03/16/2013 - 18:16:03: [testjson.smx] Decode string HloWrd}

So my best guess is that this wasn't really tested/it broke with a sourcemod update :p

Fixing string reading:

while( ++pos <= len )

In that same statement at the bottom is pos++, remove either the ++ in the while or remove the whole pos++ in the end (2 places, array and json_decode)

Still broken:
Integer/Boolean/Float (Something to do with either reading too much or not enough in the while checking for spaces)

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Thrawn2 Huhm, error or on purpose? JSON_FUNC bool:json_get_string(JSONbject, const String:key[], output[], len) should be JSON_FUNC bool:json_get_string(JSONbject, const String:key[], Stringutput[], len)

Typo when porting from the AMXX one.

Regarding decoding, I've been told before that it has issues (as would the original).

I've only used the encoding functions which seemed to work fine.

[Nikkii]

A little treat for everyone, now with working decoding

https://raw.github.com/nikkiii/logup...clude/json.inc (Previous paste.ee link had a bug with string lengths, this implementation will be fixed a lot more often if broken)

Testing:
http://paste.ee/r/yqhgL

Results:

L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] Trying to decode: {"integer": 1, "string": "Hello World", "integer2": 2}
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> Passed
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] Trying to decode: {"string": "Hello World"}
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> Passed
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] Trying to decode: {"bool": true}
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> Passed
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] Trying to decode: {"null": null}
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> Failed
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] Running self tests on data...
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> String: Passed
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> Boolean: Passed
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> Integer: Passed
L 03/18/2013 - 01:38:30: [testjson.smx] --> Data tests Passed

'null' was not implemented in the original parser, so I didn't change a thing about that. The important part is that it decodes at least basic JSON just fine.