This is a JSON encoder and decoder for Hollywood MAL (https://www.hollywood-mal.com) written in the Hollywood language.

It is a port/conversion of the json.lua library which can be found here: https://github.com/rxi/json.lua Thanks guys for your work!

The conversion of the decode part was done by Christophe Gouiran (bechris13250@gmail.com) and can be found on the Official Hollywood forums Thanks a lot, Christophe! The decode part was modified a bit so it better suits the overall structure of the file.

I will try to keep this repo in sync with development that happens in the json.lua project. Please ping me or open an issue if I am behind.

Usage

Download json.hws, drop it into an existing project and include it:

@INCLUDE "json.hws"

The library provides the following functions:

json.encode(value)

Returns a string representing value encoded in JSON.

json.encode({ 1, 2, 3, { x = 10 } }) ;-- Returns '[1,2,3,{"x": 10}]'

Alternatively you can also use the call json_encode(value) instead.

json.decode(str)

Returns a value representing the decoded JSON string.

json.decode('[1,2,3,{"x":10}]') ;-- Returns { 1, 2, 3, { x = 10 } }

Alternatively you can also use the call json_decode(str) instead.

json.debug(value)

Pretty prints a value like a decoded string to the debug output.

json.debug({ 1, 2, 3, { x = 10 } })

Notes

• Trying to encode values which are unrepresentable in JSON will never result in type conversion or other magic: sparse arrays, tables with mixed key types or invalid numbers (NaN, -inf, inf) will raise an error
• null values contained within an array or object are converted to nil and are therefore lost upon decoding
• Due to Hollywood's handling of boolean values, unfortunately it is not possible to encode those values as true/false. Instead true is converted to 1 in the encoded format and false to 0.
• Pretty encoding is not (yet) supported, json.encode() only encodes to a compact format

Contributions

• Christophe Gouiran (decode port)
• Kevin 'invent' Saunders (logo gfx): Support Kevin's awesome work

License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.