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86package JSON::XS; 86package JSON::XS;
87 87
88use strict; 88use strict;
89 89
90BEGIN { 90BEGIN {
91 our $VERSION = '1.12'; 91 our $VERSION = '1.21';
92 our @ISA = qw(Exporter); 92 our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
93 93
94 our @EXPORT = qw(to_json from_json objToJson jsonToObj); 94 our @EXPORT = qw(to_json from_json objToJson jsonToObj);
95 require Exporter; 95 require Exporter;
96 96
154 154
155If C<$enable> is true (or missing), then the C<encode> method will not 155If C<$enable> is true (or missing), then the C<encode> method will not
156generate characters outside the code range C<0..127> (which is ASCII). Any 156generate characters outside the code range C<0..127> (which is ASCII). Any
157unicode characters outside that range will be escaped using either a 157unicode characters outside that range will be escaped using either a
158single \uXXXX (BMP characters) or a double \uHHHH\uLLLLL escape sequence, 158single \uXXXX (BMP characters) or a double \uHHHH\uLLLLL escape sequence,
159as per RFC4627. 159as per RFC4627. The resulting encoded JSON text can be treated as a native
160unicode string, an ascii-encoded, latin1-encoded or UTF-8 encoded string,
161or any other superset of ASCII.
160 162
161If C<$enable> is false, then the C<encode> method will not escape Unicode 163If C<$enable> is false, then the C<encode> method will not escape Unicode
162characters unless required by the JSON syntax. This results in a faster 164characters unless required by the JSON syntax or other flags. This results
163and more compact format. 165in a faster and more compact format.
166
167The main use for this flag is to produce JSON texts that can be
168transmitted over a 7-bit channel, as the encoded JSON texts will not
169contain any 8 bit characters.
164 170
165 JSON::XS->new->ascii (1)->encode ([chr 0x10401]) 171 JSON::XS->new->ascii (1)->encode ([chr 0x10401])
166 => ["\ud801\udc01"] 172 => ["\ud801\udc01"]
173
174=item $json = $json->latin1 ([$enable])
175
176If C<$enable> is true (or missing), then the C<encode> method will encode
177the resulting JSON text as latin1 (or iso-8859-1), escaping any characters
178outside the code range C<0..255>. The resulting string can be treated as a
179latin1-encoded JSON text or a native unicode string. The C<decode> method
180will not be affected in any way by this flag, as C<decode> by default
181expects unicode, which is a strict superset of latin1.
182
183If C<$enable> is false, then the C<encode> method will not escape Unicode
184characters unless required by the JSON syntax or other flags.
185
186The main use for this flag is efficiently encoding binary data as JSON
187text, as most octets will not be escaped, resulting in a smaller encoded
188size. The disadvantage is that the resulting JSON text is encoded
189in latin1 (and must correctly be treated as such when storing and
190transfering), a rare encoding for JSON. It is therefore most useful when
191you want to store data structures known to contain binary data efficiently
192in files or databases, not when talking to other JSON encoders/decoders.
193
194 JSON::XS->new->latin1->encode (["\x{89}\x{abc}"]
195 => ["\x{89}\\u0abc"] # (perl syntax, U+abc escaped, U+89 not)
167 196
168=item $json = $json->utf8 ([$enable]) 197=item $json = $json->utf8 ([$enable])
169 198
170If C<$enable> is true (or missing), then the C<encode> method will encode 199If C<$enable> is true (or missing), then the C<encode> method will encode
171the JSON result into UTF-8, as required by many protocols, while the 200the JSON result into UTF-8, as required by many protocols, while the
345 374
346JSON numbers and strings become simple Perl scalars. JSON arrays become 375JSON numbers and strings become simple Perl scalars. JSON arrays become
347Perl arrayrefs and JSON objects become Perl hashrefs. C<true> becomes 376Perl arrayrefs and JSON objects become Perl hashrefs. C<true> becomes
348C<1>, C<false> becomes C<0> and C<null> becomes C<undef>. 377C<1>, C<false> becomes C<0> and C<null> becomes C<undef>.
349 378
379=item ($perl_scalar, $characters) = $json->decode_prefix ($json_text)
380
381This works like the C<decode> method, but instead of raising an exception
382when there is trailing garbage after the first JSON object, it will
383silently stop parsing there and return the number of characters consumed
384so far.
385
386This is useful if your JSON texts are not delimited by an outer protocol
387(which is not the brightest thing to do in the first place) and you need
388to know where the JSON text ends.
389
390 JSON::XS->new->decode_prefix ("[1] the tail")
391 => ([], 3)
392
350=back 393=back
351 394
352 395
353=head1 MAPPING 396=head1 MAPPING
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