GNU Astronomy Utilities - Tasks: task #15895, JSON support
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task #15895: JSON support
Submitter: | Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi> | ||
Submitted: | Sat 30 Jan 2021 03:27:08 PM UTC | ||
Should Start On: | Sat 30 Jan 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC | Should be Finished on: | Sat 30 Jan 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC |
Category: | Libraries | Priority: | 5 - Normal |
Item Group: | Enhancement | Status: | Postponed |
Privacy: | Public | Percent Complete: | 0% |
Assigned to: | None | Open/Closed: | Open |
Effort: | 0.00 |
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JSON is a commonly used format to store metadata or configuration files. For example some servers (that the Query program is planned to contact) provide outputs in this format.
One way is to write our own internal parser, but its better to use a good library. On the main JSON webpage there are a list of libraries for various languages, including C: https://www.json.org
Unfortunately some (like GNOME's json-glib) depend on Python!!! So we need to find one that doesn't depend on anything beyond ISO C.
I had a fast look at some of them and these seems possible potentials (although I just looked at their README, and haven't actually looked into the code at this stage to confirm):