Parsing JSON in C? [duplicate]

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How to parse JSON to an object in C. I know it's easy for scripting languages like Ruby, PHP,开发者_JAVA百科 etc. They just need to call a simple function (eg. json_decode($str) in PHP ) and the str will be parsed to a dynamic object or associative array.

What about doing this in C? Are there any examples?

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json-glib seems to be the best option if you're on Linux. There's a plethora of other choices if that doesn't work for you.

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The best way to handle JSON in C depends a lot on whether you want to process abstract, fully general JSON with arbitrary keys, types, and hierarchy, or whether you're working with data that has a fixed set of allowed fields, types for those fields, and instances in which case nesting is valid. In the latter case, you would do well to make C structures corresponding to the JSON you want to accept, and specialized code to fill those structures. For fully general JSON, you want a general-purpose library (with all the bloat that entails, as well as the performance cost of looking up values by a string key each time you want to access them rather than with a simple . or -> operator).