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Re: EuMVC:Map to Json

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jan 07, 2022
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You're right, there should be, but Euphoria isn't typed strongly enough to make a one-to-one translation from a map to JSON, so some type information has to be specified manually.

I originally did try storing JSON objects as maps but I had no way of reading back value types beyond "atom or sequence" and since maps are just atoms I couldn't tell a regular number from any other JSON type.

This is why I opted to just reference everything with its type as {type,value}. Another snag is that Euphoria maps accept any key, but JSON keys can only be strings, so there are significant limits with trying to convert maps to JSON.

That being said, I just pushed v1.15.0 which includes a new json_import() function just for you (complete with docs). I've posted a simple test program below.

(P.S. this also helped me find a bug in json_print() that would totally screw up numbers by printing them with unnecessary scientific notation!)

include std/map.e 
include std/types.e 
include mvc/json.e 
 
map color_map = map:new_from_kvpairs({ 
    { "black",   #000000 }, 
    { "maroon",  #800000 }, 
    { "green",   #008000 }, 
    { "olive",   #808000 }, 
    { "navy",    #000080 }, 
    { "purple",  #800080 }, 
    { "teal",    #008080 }, 
    { "silver",  #C0C0C0 }, 
    { "grey",    #808080 }, 
    { "red",     #FF0000 }, 
    { "lime",    #00FF00 }, 
    { "yellow",  #FFFF00 }, 
    { "blue",    #0000FF }, 
    { "fuchsia", #FF00FF }, 
    { "aqua",    #00FFFF }, 
    { "white",   #FFFFFF } 
}) 
 
procedure main() 
 
    object json = json_import( color_map ) 
 
    if json[J_TYPE] = JSON_NONE then 
        printf( 2, "%s\n", {json_last_error()} ) 
    end if 
 
    json_print( 1, json,, TRUE ) 
 
end procedure 
 
main() 

Output are integers because JSON doesn't support hexadecimal notation.

{ 
    "aqua": 65535, 
    "black": 0, 
    "blue": 255, 
    "fuchsia": 16711935, 
    "green": 32768, 
    "grey": 8421504, 
    "lime": 65280, 
    "maroon": 8388608, 
    "navy": 128, 
    "olive": 8421376, 
    "purple": 8388736, 
    "red": 16711680, 
    "silver": 12632256, 
    "teal": 32896, 
    "white": 16777215, 
    "yellow": 16776960 
} 

-Greg