As an ASF committer, I proposal the creation of a new Apache Lab, called "noggit".
Noggit, the streaming JSON parser. JSON is becoming increasingly important on the web as a lightweight serialization format. For example, JSON is becoming more widely used in web services from Yahoo and Google. There is a need for an "industrial strength" JSON parser for Java with the following features: - Streaming API (StAX/pull-parser like) for both easy and efficient parsing - Conforms to the JSON standard: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt - Can adhere strictly to the standard (not a superset like existing parsers), preferably by default - Memory efficiency - incremental parsing (Reader-based) in order to handle huge messages - a single byte of state needed per nested object or array - does not read large objects (including primitives) completely into memory unless asked - can eliminate most copying, allowing the user to provide the output buffer for values - no built in size limits for primitives (less than 2GB) - can even handle keys of any size in a map - can handle primitives of *any* size (does not attempt to parse numerics into a certain language primitives unless asked) - Fast! Other features would most likely include serialization to JSON, and creation of Java objects from JSON (most likely List, Map, etc). Current status of code: I started thinking about how to do this quite a while ago, but just started hacking on some code this week after seeing the Apache Labs. I have some working code that shows great promise (on a preliminary test, it's almost 3 times as fast as the StAX parser built into Java6). -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
