• Mafi (5/5) Nov 17 2017 What is the current best practice for parsing JSON in D? What
• Jonathan M Davis (13/18) Nov 17 2017 I've typically used http://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json which c...
• bauss (8/26) Nov 18 2017 Sadly it's not really updated and vibe.d's json module seems more
• kerdemdemir (4/4) Nov 18 2017 I am using vibe.d's json(http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/)
• Mafi (7/11) Nov 19 2017 Well, this would pull the whole vibe.d into the executable,
• bauss (5/18) Nov 19 2017 Well you could hand pick the two sub packages.

Mafi <mafi example.org> writes:

What is the current best practice for parsing JSON in D? What 
library (on code.dlang.org) should I use?

I do not want to (de-)serialize structs. Instead I want a simple 
DOM-API.

Thank you very much :)

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Friday, November 17, 2017 19:02:12 Mafi via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
 What is the current best practice for parsing JSON in D? What
 library (on code.dlang.org) should I use?

 I do not want to (de-)serialize structs. Instead I want a simple
 DOM-API.

 Thank you very much :)

I've typically used http://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json which comes
from vibe.d and was a candidate for replacing std.json - though it didn't
complete the review process, and I'm not sure that Sonke is interested in
going through the effort of actually getting it into Phobos at this point
(if I understand correctly, there were too many disagreements over what the
final result should look like than there really being much wrong with
std_data_json). But overall, I've found that it works reasonably well -
certainly, it's better than using std.json. I don't know if it's quite what
you're looking for though.

Regardless, just searching on code.dlang.org gives plenty of hits for
libraries to try out if std_data_json doesn't suit your fancy.

- Jonathan M Davis

bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 19:12:04 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
 On Friday, November 17, 2017 19:02:12 Mafi via 
 Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
 [...]

 I've typically used 
 http://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json which comes from 
 vibe.d and was a candidate for replacing std.json - though it 
 didn't complete the review process, and I'm not sure that Sonke 
 is interested in going through the effort of actually getting 
 it into Phobos at this point (if I understand correctly, there 
 were too many disagreements over what the final result should 
 look like than there really being much wrong with 
 std_data_json). But overall, I've found that it works 
 reasonably well - certainly, it's better than using std.json. I 
 don't know if it's quite what you're looking for though.

 Regardless, just searching on code.dlang.org gives plenty of 
 hits for libraries to try out if std_data_json doesn't suit 
 your fancy.

 - Jonathan M Davis

Sadly it's not really updated and vibe.d's json module seems more 
stable, as it has had 60+ commits this year, while std_data_json 
hasn't been updated for over a year.

It will probably work fine in general, but I assume it'll have a 
few gotchas here and there, as it seems like even vibe.d's module 
has that.

kerdemdemir <kerdemdemir gmail.com> writes:

I am using vibe.d's json(http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/) 
module without a problem and really happy with it. There are also 
some 
examples(https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/tree/master/examples/json). If you
are using "dub" package manager it is also very easy to integrate vibe.d.

Mafi <mafi example.org> writes:

On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 14:25:58 UTC, kerdemdemir wrote:
 I am using vibe.d's json(http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/) 
 module without a problem and really happy with it. There are 
 also some 
 examples(https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/tree/master/examples/json). If you
are using "dub" package manager it is also very easy to integrate vibe.d.

Well, this would pull the whole vibe.d into the executable, 
wouldn't it? I'll stick with stdx.data.json for now, which I have 
tried and it does work in my case. But I'll minimize the actual 
json-interaction code so I can switch out the lib at any time.

Thank you all! It's rather unfortunate that the (std lib) json 
situation is still not sorted out!

bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 10:50:58 UTC, Mafi wrote:
 On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 14:25:58 UTC, kerdemdemir 
 wrote:
 I am using vibe.d's json(http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/) 
 module without a problem and really happy with it. There are 
 also some 
 examples(https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/tree/master/examples/json). If you
are using "dub" package manager it is also very easy to integrate vibe.d.

 Well, this would pull the whole vibe.d into the executable, 
 wouldn't it? I'll stick with stdx.data.json for now, which I 
 have tried and it does work in my case. But I'll minimize the 
 actual json-interaction code so I can switch out the lib at any 
 time.

 Thank you all! It's rather unfortunate that the (std lib) json 
 situation is still not sorted out!

Well you could hand pick the two sub packages.

https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/tree/master/data
https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/tree/master/utils (data depends 
on this)