Re: Smallest Lua-only single-file JSON parser

[Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 13:50, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 01:45, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 26 October 2011 15:22, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I need to parse JSON in Lua-only environment.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some primitive single-file JSON parser that I can paste
>>>> directly into my script? (Doh, no multi-file support as well...)
>>
>>> I thought you'd never ask.
>>>
>>> MIT-licensed (see project root directory, though I can add a copyright
>>> header if you require that):
>>> http://hg.prosody.im/trunk/file/tip/util/json.lua
>>
>>> The decoder starts after line 132.
>>
>> Thank you! I'll give it a try as well!
>
> For the record: ended up using this one, as it is the shortest.
>
> Thanks again,
> Alexander.
>
>

I'm not seriously advocating this approach, but I was inspired to
write this proof-of-concept minimal module that uses Lua's own parser:

http://pastebin.com/H3gPsEeC

It didn't end up much shorter than the one you already have, but I
hope it's interesting to someone, at least. :)

-Duncan