Re: [boost] Interest in a Boost.JSON library?

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in a Boost.JSON library?
From: Kirit Sælensminde (kirit.saelensminde_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-21 22:44:50

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Kirit Sælensminde wrote:
>>
>> At the moment we use std::vector and std::map with boost::shared_ptr< 
>> json > as the value type.
> 
> What about cycles?

Not push bikes? :)

The API makes it very hard (but not impossible) to introduce a cycle 
into the JSON tree. To do so you would need to create a json::array_t or 
json::object_t and then place the same shared_ptr into the right 
locations to make the cycle. I could do something so that these types 
are not exposed thus making it impossible to introduce a cycle in the 
first place.

The unparser makes no attempt to detect a cycle in the tree, but other 
operations should work if you do force one in, but you'll likely see odd 
behaviour in other places depending on what is going on in the levels of 
code above the library.

K