json: a package to handle json (read and write).

TAKEN From JSON4Lua, originally written for Lua 5.1.

Wrapped for Torch7 (torch-rocks).

JSON4Lua: JSON encoding / decoding support for the Lua language. json Module.

Author: Craig Mason-Jones Homepage: http://json.luaforge.net/ Version: 0.9.40 This module is released under the MIT License (MIT).

Install:

First install Torch7 (www.torch.ch) then simply install this package using torch-rocks:

torch-rocks install json

Usage:

This module exposes 4 functions:

json_string = encode(o)
-- returns the table / string / boolean / number / nil / json.null value as a JSON-encoded string.

o = decode(json_string)
-- returns a Lua object populated with the data encoded in the JSON string json_string.

save(json_file, o)
-- saves the table / string / boolean / number / nil / json.null value as a JSON-encoded file.

o = load(json_file)
-- returns a Lua object populated with the data encoded in the JSON file.