Jsoncpp: WYSIWYG usage examples

jsoncpp version: jsoncpp-1.8.4

Basic Operations

#include <json/json.h>

int main() {
  Json::Value root;
  
  root["key1"] = 1;
  root["key2"] = "good";
  root["indent"]["length"] = 2;
  root["indent"]["use_space"] = true;

  Json::Value v(Json::arrayValue);
  v[0] = "clojure";
  v[1] = "json";
  v[2] = "xml";
  root["key3"] = v;
  return 0;
}

Walk the type

  for (auto i = root.begin(); i != root.end(); i++) {
    Json::Value& obj = *i;
    const std::string name = i.name();
    std::cout << name << "-" << i.key() << ": " << obj.isArray() << "\n";
  }

Read

  Json::Value root;
  std::ifstream infile;
  infile.open("your.json", std::ios::in);
  try {
    infile >> root;
  } catch (std::exception& e) {
    root = Json::objectValue;
  }
  infile.close();

Here is the inflow to read the file, it can be textstringstream

Write

  std::ofstream of;
  of.open("your.json", std::ios::out);
  of << root << std::endl;
  of.flush();
  of.close();

Formatted output

The default output json indentation is \tthat if we wanted to change two spaces:

  Json::StreamWriterBuilder builder;
  builder["indentation"] = "  ";
  builder.newStreamWriter()->write(root, &std::cout);

Here is a confusing place:
void StreamWriterBuilder::setDefaults(Json::Value* settings)seem to make a settings object becomes StreamWriterBuilderglobal default configuration, but is really just reset the configuration to make a 'default' data, the usage is really baffling ...

void StreamWriterBuilder::setDefaults(Json::Value* settings) {
  //! [StreamWriterBuilderDefaults]
  (*settings)["commentStyle"] = "All";
  (*settings)["indentation"] = "\t";
  (*settings)["enableYAMLCompatibility"] = false;
  (*settings)["dropNullPlaceholders"] = false;
  (*settings)["useSpecialFloats"] = false;
  (*settings)["precision"] = 17;
  (*settings)["precisionType"] = "significant";
  //! [StreamWriterBuilderDefaults]
}