Re: [Boost-users] How strong is PropertyTree JSON support

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How strong is PropertyTree JSON support
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-01-08 21:50:56

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:55 PM Bjorn Reese via Boost-users
<boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On 1/8/19 8:31 PM, Michael Powell via Boost-users wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure, what am I supposed to be keying in on here? Looks like
> > straight usage of the PropertyTree Json support? Thanks, but I
> > gathered that already, and then some.
>
> You concluded yourself that PropertyTree is probably not what your
> are looking for. You received two responses about other JSON libraries
> that you can use instead.
>
> You could try to roll your own, but the simplicity of the JSON syntax
> is deceiving. See for instance:
>
>    http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

Thank you for that bit of clarification.

> So you would be better of using a standards-compliant library.
>
> The one I suggested has the advantage that you could use its low-level
> API as a JSON lexer to build your own AST, or you could use the higher-
> level tree structure that comes with the library.
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