--- JSON-XS/README 2008/04/16 18:38:38 1.25 +++ JSON-XS/README 2008/06/03 06:43:45 1.26 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Beginning with version 2.0 of the JSON module, when both JSON and JSON::XS are installed, then JSON will fall back on JSON::XS (this can - be overriden) with no overhead due to emulation (by inheritign + be overridden) with no overhead due to emulation (by inheriting constructor and methods). If JSON::XS is not available, it will fall back to the compatible JSON::PP module as backend, so using JSON instead of JSON::XS gives you a portable JSON API that can be fast when you need @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ * round-trip integrity - When you serialise a perl data structure using only datatypes + When you serialise a perl data structure using only data types supported by JSON, the deserialised data structure is identical on the Perl level. (e.g. the string "2.0" doesn't suddenly become "2" just because it looks like a number). There minor *are* exceptions @@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ * simple to use This module has both a simple functional interface as well as an - objetc oriented interface interface. + object oriented interface interface. * reasonably versatile output formats You can choose between the most compact guaranteed-single-line - format possible (nice for simple line-based protocols), a pure-ascii + format possible (nice for simple line-based protocols), a pure-ASCII format (for when your transport is not 8-bit clean, still supports the whole Unicode range), or a pretty-printed format (for when you want to read that stuff). Or you can combine those features in @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ $json_text = JSON::XS->new->utf8->encode ($perl_scalar) - except being faster. + Except being faster. $perl_scalar = decode_json $json_text The opposite of "encode_json": expects an UTF-8 (binary) string and @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ $perl_scalar = JSON::XS->new->utf8->decode ($json_text) - except being faster. + Except being faster. $is_boolean = JSON::XS::is_bool $scalar Returns true if the passed scalar represents either JSON::XS::true @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ doesn't exist. 4. A "Unicode String" is simply a string where each character can be - validly interpreted as a Unicode codepoint. + validly interpreted as a Unicode code point. If you have UTF-8 encoded data, it is no longer a Unicode string, but a Unicode string encoded in UTF-8, giving you a binary string. @@ -625,8 +625,6 @@ => ([], 3) INCREMENTAL PARSING - [This section and the API it details is still EXPERIMENTAL] - In some cases, there is the need for incremental parsing of JSON texts. While this module always has to keep both JSON text and resulting Perl data structure in memory at one time, it does allow you to parse a JSON @@ -687,6 +685,14 @@ parser state is left unchanged, to skip the text parsed so far and to reset the parse state. + $json->incr_reset + This completely resets the incremental parser, that is, after this + call, it will be as if the parser had never parsed anything. + + This is useful if you want ot repeatedly parse JSON objects and want + to ignore any trailing data, which means you have to reset the + parser after each successful decode. + LIMITATIONS All options that affect decoding are supported, except "allow_nonref". The reason for this is that it cannot be made to work sensibly: JSON @@ -915,7 +921,7 @@ can also use "JSON::XS::false" and "JSON::XS::true" to improve readability. - encode_json [\0,JSON::XS::true] # yields [false,true] + encode_json [\0, JSON::XS::true] # yields [false,true] JSON::XS::true, JSON::XS::false These special values become JSON true and JSON false values, @@ -1220,9 +1226,8 @@ BUGS While the goal of this module is to be correct, that unfortunately does - not mean it's bug-free, only that I think its design is bug-free. It is - still relatively early in its development. If you keep reporting bugs - they will be fixed swiftly, though. + not mean it's bug-free, only that I think its design is bug-free. If you + keep reporting bugs they will be fixed swiftly, though. Please refrain from using rt.cpan.org or any other bug reporting service. I put the contact address into my modules for a reason.