JSON parser/generator to/from Clojure data structures.

Follows the specification on http://json.org/

Latest stable release is 0.2.0

Leiningen dependency information:

[org.clojure/data.json "0.2.0"]

Maven dependency information:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
  <artifactId>data.json</artifactId>
  <version>0.2.0</version>
</dependency>

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Examples:

(require '[clojure.data.json :as json])

To convert to/from JSON strings, use json/write-str and json/read-str:

(json/write-str {:a 1 :b 2})
;;=> "{\"a\":1,\"b\":2}"

(json/read-str "{\"a\":1,\"b\":2}")
;;=> {"a" 1, "b" 2}

Note that these operations are not symmetric: converting Clojure data into JSON is lossy.

You can specify a :key-fn to convert map keys on the way in or out:

(json/read-str "{\"a\":1,\"b\":2}"
               :key-fn keyword)
;;=> {:a 1, :b 2}

(json/write-str {:a 1 :b 2}
                :key-fn #(.toUpperCase %))
;;=> "{\"A\":1,\"B\":2}"

(json/read-str "{\"a\":1,\"b\":2}"
               :key-fn #(keyword "com.example" %))
;;=> {:com.example/a 1, :com.example/b 2}

You can specify a :value-fn to convert map values on the way in or out. The value-fn will be called with two arguments, the key and the value, and it returns the updated value.

(defn my-value-reader [key value]
  (if (= key :date)
    (java.sql.Date/valueOf value)
    value))

(json/read-str "{\"number\":42,\"date\":\"2012-06-02\"}"
               :value-fn my-value-reader
               :key-fn keyword) 
;;=> {:number 42, :date #inst "2012-06-02T04:00:00.000-00:00"}

Note that if you specify both a :key-fn and a :value-fn when reading, the value-fn is called after the key has been processed by the key-fn. The reverse is true when writing:

(defn my-value-writer [key value]
  (if (= key :date)
    (str (java.sql.Date. (.getTime value)))
    value))

(json/write-str {:number 42, :date (java.util.Date. 112 5 2)}
                :value-fn my-value-writer
                :key-fn name) 
;;=> "{\"number\":42,\"date\":\"2012-06-02\"}"

You can also read JSON directly from a java.io.Reader with json/read and write JSON directly to a java.io.Writer with json/write.

Other options are available. Refer to the API Documentation for details.

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• Release 0.2.0 on 2012-Oct-12
  • Breaking API changes: renamed core functions
  • New :key-fn and :value-fn permit flexible transformation of values when reading & writing JSON
  • Support for reading large integers as BigInt
  • Optional support for reading decimals as BigDecimal
  • Performance improvements
• Release 0.1.3 on 2012-Mar-09
  • Fix writing strings containing characters outside the BMP
• Release 0.1.2 on 2011-Oct-14
  • Better parsing of hexadecimal character escapes
  • Fix EOF-handling bug
  • Fix reflection warnings DJSON-1
• Release 0.1.1 on 2011-Jul-01
  • Ensure that printing to *out* always uses a PrintWriter.
• Release 0.1.0 on 2011-Mar-18
  • Initial release.
  • Source-compatible with clojure.contrib.json, except for the name change.

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