Re: New JSON library from the maker of Beast!

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-09-23 16:19:22

On 9/23/19 9:11 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 8:58 AM Bjorn Reese via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> ...online parser...
>> A push parser (SAX)...
>> A tree parser (DOM)
> 
> I have no experience with these terms other than occasionally coming
> across them in my Google searching adventures. The parsers that I have
> written take as input one or more buffers of contiguous characters,
> and produce as "output" a series of calls to abstract member functions
> which are implemented in the derived class. These calls represent
> tokens or events, such as "key string", "object begin", "array end".
> So what would we call this in the taxonomy above?

Hmmmm - sounds like a job for Boost Spirit !  This is what I used 15+ 
years ago to create a special purpose for the limited subset of XML that 
boost serialization library.  In all that time, through innumerable 
variations of compilers, linkers, C++ versions, ... everything - 
modification has been required on only a couple of cases.  And by 
separating syntax from actions, it has permitted other collaborators to 
discover and suggest fixes to weird corner cases.  The code seems pretty 
efficient too - at least no one has complained about that aspect - or 
another other either.

The only complain would be slow compile time.  But since the 
serialization library is compiled and the code is only compiled when the 
grammar changes - it's not really an issue.

This software and its approach has been under appreciated - need a good 
CppCon talk on this subject.  Food for thought.

Robert Ramey

> 
> Thanks
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