NAME

Mojo::JSON - Minimalistic JSON

SYNOPSIS

  # Encode and decode JSON
  use Mojo::JSON;
  my $json  = Mojo::JSON->new;
  my $bytes = $json->encode({foo => [1, 2], bar => 'hello!', baz => \1});
  my $hash  = $json->decode($bytes);

  # Check for errors
  my $json = Mojo::JSON->new;
  if (defined(my $hash = $json->decode($bytes))) { say $hash->{message} }
  else { say 'Error: ', $json->error }

  # Use the alternative interface
  use Mojo::JSON 'j';
  my $bytes = j({foo => [1, 2], bar => 'hello!', baz => \1});
  my $hash  = j($bytes);

DESCRIPTION

Mojo::JSON is a minimalistic and relaxed implementation of RFC 4627. While it is possibly the fastest pure-Perl JSON parser available, you should not use it for validation.

It supports normal Perl data types like Scalar, Array reference, Hash reference and will try to call the TO_JSON method on blessed references, or stringify them if it doesn't exist.

  [1, -2, 3]     -> [1, -2, 3]
  {"foo": "bar"} -> {foo => 'bar'}

Literal names will be translated to and from Mojo::JSON constants or a similar native Perl value. In addition Scalar references will be used to generate booleans, based on if their values are true or false.

  true  -> Mojo::JSON->true
  false -> Mojo::JSON->false
  null  -> undef

Decoding UTF-16 (LE/BE) and UTF-32 (LE/BE) will be handled transparently, encoding will only generate UTF-8. The two Unicode whitespace characters u2028 and u2029 will always be escaped to make JSONP easier.

FUNCTIONS

Mojo::JSON implements the following functions.

j

  my $bytes = j([1, 2, 3]);
  my $bytes = j({foo => 'bar'});
  my $array = j($bytes);
  my $hash  = j($bytes);

Encode Perl data structure or decode JSON and return undef if decoding fails.

ATTRIBUTES

Mojo::JSON implements the following attributes.

error

  my $err = $json->error;
  $json   = $json->error('Parser error');

Parser errors.

METHODS

Mojo::JSON inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones.

decode

  my $array = $json->decode($bytes);
  my $hash  = $json->decode($bytes);

Decode JSON to Perl data structure and return undef if decoding fails.

encode

  my $bytes = $json->encode([1, 2, 3]);
  my $bytes = $json->encode({foo => 'bar'});

Encode Perl data structure to JSON.

false

  my $false = Mojo::JSON->false;
  my $false = $json->false;

False value, used because Perl has no native equivalent.

true

  my $true = Mojo::JSON->true;
  my $true = $json->true;

True value, used because Perl has no native equivalent.