package yojson
Install
Dune Dependency
Authors
Maintainers
Sources
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README.md.html
Yojson: JSON library for OCaml
Library documentation
Currently at https://mjambon.github.io/mjambon2016/yojson-doc/Yojson.html
The link above is for the ocamldoc-generated of some past version of yojson. Suggestions on how to keep this documentation updated automatically for each minor release are welcome.
Design goals
reducing inter-package dependencies by the use of polymorphic variants for the JSON tree type
allowing variants of the JSON tree type to be shipped by the library itself or to be easily created as extensions of the library
allowing type-aware serializers/deserializers such as json-static to read and write directly without going through a JSON tree, for efficiency purposes. This requires making readers and writers of JSON atoms (int, string, etc.) to be exported and composable.
providing a few non-standard, optional extensions of JSON. These extensions will include:
optional quotes around "simple" field/constructor names
a syntax for tuples (at least 2 elements):
(x, y)
a syntax for variants (0 or 1 arg only):
<Foo> <Bar:"abc">
Other choices already in json-wheel
distinction between ints and floats (optional)
Getting rid of the UTF-X encoding constraint that prevents from exchanging binary data:
encoding is ASCII except for the contents of string literals
string literals may represent arbitrary sequence of bytes
\uABCD
escapes in string literals expand to UTF-8
Miscellaneous
no dependency on ocamlnet for UTF-8