# json_object.h File Reference

## Data Structures

struct | json_object_iter

## Defines

#define | JSON_OBJECT_DEF_HASH_ENTRIES 16
#define | JSON_C_TO_STRING_PLAIN 0
#define | JSON_C_TO_STRING_SPACED (1<<0)
#define | JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY (1<<1)
#define | FALSE ((json_bool)0)
#define | TRUE ((json_bool)1)
#define | json_object_object_foreach(obj, key, val)
#define | json_object_object_foreachC(obj, iter) for(iter.entry = json_object_get_object(obj)->head; (iter.entry ? (iter.key = (char*)iter.entry->k, iter.val = (struct json_object*)iter.entry->v, iter.entry) : 0); iter.entry = iter.entry->next)

## Typedefs

typedef int | json_bool
typedef struct printbuf | printbuf
typedef struct lh_table | lh_table
typedef struct array_list | array_list
typedef struct json_object | json_object
typedef struct json_object_iter | json_object_iter
typedef struct json_tokener | json_tokener
typedef enum json_type | json_type

## Enumerations

enum | json_type { json_type_null, json_type_boolean, json_type_double, json_type_int, json_type_object, json_type_array, json_type_string }

## Functions

struct json_object * | json_object_get (struct json_object *obj)
void | json_object_put (struct json_object *obj)
int | json_object_is_type (struct json_object *obj, enum json_type type)
enum json_type | json_object_get_type (struct json_object *obj)
const char * | json_object_to_json_string (struct json_object *obj)
const char * | json_object_to_json_string_ext (struct json_object *obj, int flags)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_object (void)
struct lh_table * | json_object_get_object (struct json_object *obj)
void | json_object_object_add (struct json_object *obj, const char *key, struct json_object *val)
struct json_object * | json_object_object_get (struct json_object *obj, const char *key)
json_bool | json_object_object_get_ex (struct json_object *obj, const char *key, struct json_object **value)
void | json_object_object_del (struct json_object *obj, const char *key)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_array (void)
struct array_list * | json_object_get_array (struct json_object *obj)
int | json_object_array_length (struct json_object *obj)
void | json_object_array_sort (struct json_object *jso, int(*sort_fn)(const void *, const void *))
int | json_object_array_add (struct json_object *obj, struct json_object *val)
int | json_object_array_put_idx (struct json_object *obj, int idx, struct json_object *val)
struct json_object * | json_object_array_get_idx (struct json_object *obj, int idx)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_boolean (json_bool b)
json_bool | json_object_get_boolean (struct json_object *obj)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_int (int32_t i)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_int64 (int64_t i)
int32_t | json_object_get_int (struct json_object *obj)
int64_t | json_object_get_int64 (struct json_object *obj)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_double (double d)
double | json_object_get_double (struct json_object *obj)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_string (const char *s)
struct json_object * | json_object_new_string_len (const char *s, int len)
const char * | json_object_get_string (struct json_object *obj)
int | json_object_get_string_len (struct json_object *obj)

## Variables

const char * | json_number_chars
const char * | json_hex_chars

## Define Documentation

#define FALSE ((json_bool)0)

#define JSON_C_TO_STRING_PLAIN 0

A flag for the json_object_to_json_string_ext() and json_object_to_file_ext() functions which causes the output to have no extra whitespace or formatting applied.

#define JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY (1<<1)

A flag for the json_object_to_json_string_ext() and json_object_to_file_ext() functions which causes the output to be formatted.

See the "Two Space Tab" option at http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ for an example of the format.

#define JSON_C_TO_STRING_SPACED (1<<0)

A flag for the json_object_to_json_string_ext() and json_object_to_file_ext() functions which causes the output to have minimal whitespace inserted to make things slightly more readable.

#define JSON_OBJECT_DEF_HASH_ENTRIES 16

#define json_object_object_foreach | ( | obj,
|  | key,
|  | val |  | ) |

Value:

    char *key; struct json_object *val; struct lh_entry *entry; \
     for(entry = json_object_get_object(obj)->head; (entry ? (key = (char*)entry->k, val = (struct json_object*)entry->v, entry) : 0); entry = entry->next)

Iterate through all keys and values of an object

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | key | the local name for the char* key variable defined in the body
  | val | the local name for the json_object* object variable defined in the body

#define json_object_object_foreachC | ( | obj,
|  | iter |  | ) | for(iter.entry = json_object_get_object(obj)->head; (iter.entry ? (iter.key = (char*)iter.entry->k, iter.val = (struct json_object*)iter.entry->v, iter.entry) : 0); iter.entry = iter.entry->next)

Iterate through all keys and values of an object (ANSI C Safe)

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | iter | the object iterator

#define TRUE ((json_bool)1)

## Typedef Documentation

typedef struct array_list array_list

typedef int json_bool

typedef struct json_object json_object

typedef struct json_object_iter json_object_iter

typedef struct json_tokener json_tokener

typedef enum json_type json_type

typedef struct lh_table lh_table

typedef struct printbuf printbuf

## Enumeration Type Documentation

enum json_type

Enumerator:

  json_type_null |
  json_type_boolean |
  json_type_double |
  json_type_int |
  json_type_object |
  json_type_array |
  json_type_string |

## Function Documentation

int json_object_array_add | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | struct json_object * | val |
| ) |  |  |

Add an element to the end of a json_object of type json_type_array

The reference count will *not* be incremented. This is to make adding fields to objects in code more compact. If you want to retain a reference to an added object you must wrap the passed object with json_object_get

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | val | the json_object to be added

struct json_object* json_object_array_get_idx | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | int | idx |
| ) |  |  | `[read]`

Get the element at specificed index of the array (a json_object of type json_type_array)

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | idx | the index to get the element at

Returns:
  the json_object at the specified index (or NULL)

int json_object_array_length | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the length of a json_object of type json_type_array

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  an int

int json_object_array_put_idx | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | int | idx,
|  | struct json_object * | val |
| ) |  |  |

Insert or replace an element at a specified index in an array (a json_object of type json_type_array)

The reference count will *not* be incremented. This is to make adding fields to objects in code more compact. If you want to retain a reference to an added object you must wrap the passed object with json_object_get

The reference count of a replaced object will be decremented.

The array size will be automatically be expanded to the size of the index if the index is larger than the current size.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | idx | the index to insert the element at
  | val | the json_object to be added

void json_object_array_sort | ( | struct json_object * | jso,
|  | int(*)(const void *, const void *) | sort_fn |
| ) |  |  |

Sorts the elements of jso of type json_type_array

Pointers to the json_object pointers will be passed as the two arguments to

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | sort_fn | a sorting function

struct json_object* json_object_get | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) | `[read]`

Increment the reference count of json_object, thereby grabbing shared ownership of obj.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

struct array_list* json_object_get_array | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) | `[read]`

Get the arraylist of a json_object of type json_type_array

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  an arraylist

json_bool json_object_get_boolean | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the json_bool value of a json_object

The type is coerced to a json_bool if the passed object is not a json_bool. integer and double objects will return FALSE if there value is zero or TRUE otherwise. If the passed object is a string it will return TRUE if it has a non zero length. If any other object type is passed TRUE will be returned if the object is not NULL.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  a json_bool

double json_object_get_double | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the double floating point value of a json_object

The type is coerced to a double if the passed object is not a double. integer objects will return their double conversion. Strings will be parsed as a double. If no conversion exists then 0.0 is returned and errno is set to EINVAL. null is equivalent to 0 (no error values set)

If the value is too big to fit in a double, then the value is set to the closest infinity with errno set to ERANGE. If strings cannot be converted to their double value, then EINVAL is set & NaN is returned.

Arrays of length 0 are interpreted as 0 (with no error flags set). Arrays of length 1 are effectively cast to the equivalent object and converted using the above rules. All other arrays set the error to EINVAL & return NaN.

NOTE: Set errno to 0 directly before a call to this function to determine whether or not conversion was successful (it does not clear the value for you).

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  a double floating point number

int32_t json_object_get_int | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the int value of a json_object

The type is coerced to a int if the passed object is not a int. double objects will return their integer conversion. Strings will be parsed as an integer. If no conversion exists then 0 is returned and errno is set to EINVAL. null is equivalent to 0 (no error values set)

Note that integers are stored internally as 64-bit values. If the value of too big or too small to fit into 32-bit, INT32_MAX or INT32_MIN are returned, respectively.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  an int

int64_t json_object_get_int64 | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the int value of a json_object

The type is coerced to a int64 if the passed object is not a int64. double objects will return their int64 conversion. Strings will be parsed as an int64. If no conversion exists then 0 is returned.

NOTE: Set errno to 0 directly before a call to this function to determine whether or not conversion was successful (it does not clear the value for you).

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  an int64

struct lh_table* json_object_get_object | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) | `[read]`

Get the hashtable of a json_object of type json_type_object

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  a linkhash

const char* json_object_get_string | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the string value of a json_object

If the passed object is not of type json_type_string then the JSON representation of the object is returned.

The returned string memory is managed by the json_object and will be freed when the reference count of the json_object drops to zero.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  a string

int json_object_get_string_len | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the string length of a json_object

If the passed object is not of type json_type_string then zero will be returned.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  int

enum json_type json_object_get_type | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Get the type of the json_object. See also json_type_to_name() to turn this into a string suitable, for instance, for logging.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  type being one of: json_type_null (i.e. obj == NULL), json_type_boolean, json_type_double, json_type_int, json_type_object, json_type_array, json_type_string,

int json_object_is_type | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | enum json_type | type |
| ) |  |  |

Check if the json_object is of a given type

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | type | one of: json_type_null (i.e. obj == NULL), json_type_boolean, json_type_double, json_type_int, json_type_object, json_type_array, json_type_string,

struct json_object* json_object_new_array | ( | void |  | ) | `[read]`

Create a new empty json_object of type json_type_array

Returns:
  a json_object of type json_type_array

struct json_object* json_object_new_boolean | ( | json_bool | b | ) | `[read]`

Create a new empty json_object of type json_type_boolean

Parameters:

  | b | a json_bool TRUE or FALSE (0 or 1)

Returns:
  a json_object of type json_type_boolean

struct json_object* json_object_new_double | ( | double | d | ) | `[read]`

Create a new empty json_object of type json_type_double

Parameters:

  | d | the double

Returns:
  a json_object of type json_type_double

struct json_object* json_object_new_int | ( | int32_t | i | ) | `[read]`

Create a new empty json_object of type json_type_int Note that values are stored as 64-bit values internally. To ensure the full range is maintained, use json_object_new_int64 instead.

Parameters:

  | i | the integer

Returns:
  a json_object of type json_type_int

struct json_object* json_object_new_int64 | ( | int64_t | i | ) | `[read]`

Create a new empty json_object of type json_type_int

Parameters:

  | i | the integer

Returns:
  a json_object of type json_type_int

struct json_object* json_object_new_object | ( | void |  | ) | `[read]`

Create a new empty object with a reference count of 1. The caller of this object initially has sole ownership. Remember, when using json_object_object_add or json_object_array_put_idx, ownership will transfer to the object/array. Call json_object_get if you want to maintain shared ownership or also add this object as a child of multiple objects or arrays. Any ownerships you acquired but did not transfer must be released through json_object_put.

Returns:
  a json_object of type json_type_object

struct json_object* json_object_new_string | ( | const char * | s | ) | `[read]`

Create a new empty json_object of type json_type_string

A copy of the string is made and the memory is managed by the json_object

Parameters:

  | s | the string

Returns:
  a json_object of type json_type_string

struct json_object* json_object_new_string_len | ( | const char * | s,
|  | int | len |
| ) |  |  | `[read]`

void json_object_object_add | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | const char * | key,
|  | struct json_object * | val |
| ) |  |  |

Add an object field to a json_object of type json_type_object

The reference count will *not* be incremented. This is to make adding fields to objects in code more compact. If you want to retain a reference to an added object, independent of the lifetime of obj, you must wrap the passed object with json_object_get.

Upon calling this, the ownership of val transfers to obj. Thus you must make sure that you do in fact have ownership over this object. For instance, json_object_new_object will give you ownership until you transfer it, whereas json_object_object_get does not.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | key | the object field name (a private copy will be duplicated)
  | val | a json_object or NULL member to associate with the given field

void json_object_object_del | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | const char * | key |
| ) |  |  |

Delete the given json_object field

The reference count will be decremented for the deleted object. If there are no more owners of the value represented by this key, then the value is freed. Otherwise, the reference to the value will remain in memory.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | key | the object field name

struct json_object* json_object_object_get | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | const char * | key |
| ) |  |  | `[read]`

Get the json_object associate with a given object field

*No* reference counts will be changed. There is no need to manually adjust reference counts through the json_object_put/json_object_get methods unless you need to have the child (value) reference maintain a different lifetime than the owning parent (obj). Ownership of the returned value is retained by obj (do not do json_object_put unless you have done a json_object_get). If you delete the value from obj (json_object_object_del) and wish to access the returned reference afterwards, make sure you have first gotten shared ownership through json_object_get (& don't forget to do a json_object_put or transfer ownership to prevent a memory leak).

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | key | the object field name

Returns:
  the json_object associated with the given field name

Deprecated:
  Please use json_object_object_get_ex

json_bool json_object_object_get_ex | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | const char * | key,
|  | struct json_object ** | value |
| ) |  |  |

Get the json_object associated with a given object field.

This returns true if the key is found, false in all other cases (including if obj isn't a json_type_object).

*No* reference counts will be changed. There is no need to manually adjust reference counts through the json_object_put/json_object_get methods unless you need to have the child (value) reference maintain a different lifetime than the owning parent (obj). Ownership of value is retained by obj.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | key | the object field name
  | value | a pointer where to store a reference to the json_object associated with the given field name.

It is safe to pass a NULL value.

Returns:
  whether or not the key exists

void json_object_put | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Decrement the reference count of json_object and free if it reaches zero. You must have ownership of obj prior to doing this or you will cause an imbalance in the reference count.

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

const char* json_object_to_json_string | ( | struct json_object * | obj | ) |

Stringify object to json format. Equivalent to json_object_to_json_string_ext(obj, JSON_C_TO_STRING_SPACED)

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance

Returns:
  a string in JSON format

const char* json_object_to_json_string_ext | ( | struct json_object * | obj,
|  | int | flags |
| ) |  |  |

Stringify object to json format

Parameters:

  | obj | the json_object instance
  | flags | formatting options, see JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY and other constants

Returns:
  a string in JSON format

## Variable Documentation

const char* json_hex_chars

const char* json_number_chars