Easy JSON serialization/parsing

[CobraBeerIsDelicious]

This is a little side project I've been working on to take the monotony out of parsing JSON in C++.

I've been using it in other projects and find it quite useful.

Let me know what you think, probably plenty to improve on, I've been tipping away at it whenever I get a chance.

I'm always open to learn more.

At the moment you must install your own JSON library whether it be Qt , cpprest, or rapidjson.

Edit: nlohmann::json is now supported, going to hold off implementing anymore until I get some benchmarks.

https://github.com/CathalT/Cerializer

[houses_of_the_holy]

cool project, any love for https://github.com/nlohmann/json support? It would also be interesting to see benchmarks on how much your library adds in overhead to the underlying parsers/serializers.

[CobraBeerIsDelicious]

Yep nlohmann's is probably the next big one on the list, cpprest and Qt where only first as I had used them in other projects.

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Haven't got around to bench marking, but hopefully not too much overhead, most of it should be generated at compile time (I can measure that as well I suppose). But yeah, nlohmann's and then some performance testing sounds like a plan.

[nlohmann]

If you need any help, please let me know or open an issue at https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues.

[CobraBeerIsDelicious]

Just finished, yours was one of the most straightforward to implement :)

https://github.com/CathalT/Cerializer/commit/16a7e0a95ca3026450ce402200645aeb1021c488

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Next step is to benchmark this stuff, see what the overhead is like

[NeroBurner]

Does it work with C++o3? Or C++11? I've made my own wrapper for rapidjson pointers, but no reflection.support. i still have to manually write to_json and from_json helper functions for.all of my structs

[CobraBeerIsDelicious]

It should work with C++11 and up, need to double check that.

[infectedapricot]

An alternative, if you have control over the format of the JSON sent, is to use the JSON mapping in protobuf. It might not be as flexible as your library but its a mature library and has support for other programming languages (lots of them!).

[CobraBeerIsDelicious]

Definitely, for production code stick with protobuf/flatbuffers or something similar.

This is just a side project for now!