[erlang-questions] fast JSON parser in C

[Rick R]

I second this. I have not yet gotten to the point in my project where I need
this. But it is certainly a need looming out there on the horizon. With
Yaws/Erlyweb/MochiWeb/etc becoming more prevalent and important. I could see
this being a huge win for ajax/comet libraries.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Jonathan Gray <jlist@REDACTED> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> It would certainly ease our integration.  JSON is certainly becoming
> ubiquitous and tighter integration with Erlang would be very useful.
>
> One note, in my current implementation and in general, there's no real
> direct mapping for JSON objects/dictionaries.  While Erlang does have
> dicts,
> we were never able to "create" them using erl_interface/ei, though I'm sure
> it's possible by dissecting the dict representation.  I use a {obj,
> [{},{}]}
> type representation now to handle JSON objects in Erlang.  Any thoughts?
>
> +1 on new JSON BIFs :)  Willing to help in any way I can.
>
> Jonathan Gray
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:49 AM
> To: Martin Carlson
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> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] fast JSON parser in C
>
> Since JSON seem to be ubiquitous is seems to me that there would be
> a strong case for a couple of new BIFs,  term_to_json and json_to_term.
> these would work like binary_to_term and term_to_binary the difference
> being that
> instead of converting to a binary containing the external term format,
> we convert
> to a binary containing a JSON encoded string.
>
> I imaging that modeling this code on the existing term_to_binary and
> binary_to_term
> code would not be impossibly difficult (you have to make it reentrant
> and not to
> not hog the CPU for too long ... and so on ...)
>
> And yes - it is pretty horrid increasing the number of BIFs but this
> might just be
> a useful addition.
>
> This would ease seamless integration with a lot of external programs :-)
>
> /Joe Armstrong
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Martin Carlson
> <martin@REDACTED> wrote:
> > You might want to go with the ei interface rather than the erl_interface
> > since it is not as clumsy to use. Further, you might want to have a look
> > at the ejabberd expat driver and just replace the expat stuff with your
> > json SAX events.
> >
> >  -Martin
> >
> > Chris Anderson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jonathan Gray <jlist@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> >>> However when I get a big chunk (around 80-120K) directly from Erlang as
> >>> binary (using term_to_binary in erlang), I'm unable to decode it using
> >>> erl_interface erl_decode, though it can be decoded fine from within
> Erlang.
> >>
> >> Good to know - CouchDB's Erlang -> JSON encoding is fast enough to not
> >> need help from C. I'm just working on making the JSON -> Erlang fast
> >> enough, so as long as I can get string buffers over to C in the first
> >> place, it sounds like you're not having a problem moving data from C
> >> back to Erlang.
> >>
> >> Time to buckle down and code!
> >>
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