NAME

Mojo::JSON - Minimalistic JSON

SYNOPSIS

use Mojo::JSON;

# Encode and decode 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 possibly the fastest pure-Perl implementation of RFC 4627.

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. Differentiating between strings and numbers in Perl is hard, depending on how it has been used, a Scalar can be both at the same time. Since numeric comparisons on strings are very unlikely to happen intentionally, the numeric value always gets priority, so any Scalar that has been used in numeric context is considered a number.

[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.

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

In addition Scalar references will be used to generate booleans, based on if their values are true or false.

\1 -> true
\0 -> false

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, which can be imported individually.

decode_json

my $array = decode_json($bytes);
my $hash  = decode_json($bytes);

Decode JSON to Perl data structure and die if decoding fails.

encode_json

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

Encode Perl data structure to JSON.

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'});