I just had a look; if I'm not mistaken, it's not really a streaming parser, but rather the ability to read a SEQUENCE of JSON forms from a stream.
This avoids the ordering issue I raised earlier (JSON object fields are unordered), but allows you to process the sequence of JSON forms asynchronously in different threads (which may introduce it's own ordering issues, but at least it's under your control). This may be what you need; for example, you could output a series of JSON forms describing one high score, and loop reading them one at a time. However, it won't let you read some complex JSON structure, parsing it as it reads. Each form read will be fully-parsed in one step, and returned. This seems to me to be about the right compromise for JSON. The big semantic differences between JSON and XML are 1) JSON objects are unordered, and 2) JSON objects are not named (while their fields are). 1) is a headache for anything that mixes processing with reading, as the processing is then unordered as well. 2) is easily worked around by an application, but makes it harder to design a general API to invoke processing, and interacts badly with 1). But if you can recast your big JSON object as a series of smaller objects, each processed one at a time, a GSON does, you get most of the benefit and avoid most of the headaches. On Dec 27, 11:20 am, Rmac <[email protected]> wrote: > Check out GSON... in version 1.6 there is a new very small streaming > parser. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
