usage-QJson

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Usage

This page provides a quick overview of QJson’s features:

• parsing: from JSON to QVariant.
• serializing: from QVariant to JSON.
• QObject helper: dump and restore QObject’s attributes.

For more details checkout QJson’s documentation.

 

Parsing: from JSON to QVariant

Converting JSON’s data to QVariant instance is really simple:

// create a Parser instance
QJson::Parser parser;

bool ok;

// json is a QString containing the data to convert
QVariant result = parser.parse (json, &ok);

Suppose you’re going to convert this JSON data:

{
  "encoding" : "UTF-8",
  "plug-ins" : [
      "python",
      "c++",
      "ruby"
      ],
  "indent" : { "length" : 3, "use_space" : true }
}

The following code would convert the JSON data and parse it:

QJson::Parser parser;
bool ok;

QVariantMap result = parser.parse (json, &ok).toMap();
if (!ok) {
  qFatal("An error occurred during parsing");
  exit (1);
}

qDebug() << "encoding:" << result["encoding"].toString();
qDebug() << "plugins:";

foreach (QVariant plugin, result["plug-ins"].toList()) {
  qDebug() << "\t-" << plugin.toString();
}

QVariantMap nestedMap = result["indent"].toMap();
qDebug() << "length:" << nestedMap["length"].toInt();
qDebug() << "use_space:" << nestedMap["use_space"].toBool();

The output would be:

encoding: "UTF-8"
plugins:
  - "python"
  - "c++"
  - "ruby"
length: 3
use_space: true

 

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Serialization: from QVariant to JSON

QVariant objects are converted to a string containing the JSON data.

Let’s declare a QVariant object with some data to convert:

QVariantList people;

QVariantMap bob;
bob.insert("Name", "Bob");
bob.insert("Phonenumber", 123);

QVariantMap alice;
alice.insert("Name", "Alice");
alice.insert("Phonenumber", 321);

people << bob << alice;

Now it’s time to create the Serializer:

QJson::Serializer serializer;
bool ok;
QByteArray json = serializer.serialize(people, &ok);

if (ok) {
  qDebug() << json;
} else {
  qCritical() << "Something went wrong:" << serializer.errorMessage();
}

The output will be:

[ 
    { 
        "Name" : "Bob", "Phonenumber" : 123
    },
    { 
        "Name" : "Alice", "Phonenumber" : 321 
    } 
]

It’s possible to tune the indentation level of the resulting string using the Serializer::setIndentMode() method