Yonik Seeley wrote: > 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).
please attach a DOAP descriptor for the lab and you get my +1 for more info on DOAP see http://usefulinc.com/doap you can use the DOAP-A-Matic http://crschmidt.net/semweb/doapamatic/ or you can look at Agora's for a template. NOTE: the more descriptive, the better. -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
