JSON Lint
Usage
use Seld\JsonLint\JsonParser;
$parser = new JsonParser();
// returns null if it's valid json, or a ParsingException object.
$parser->lint($json);
// Call getMessage() on the exception object to get
// a well formatted error message error like this
// Parse error on line 2:
// ... "key": "value" "numbers": [1, 2, 3]
// ----------------------^
// Expected one of: 'EOF', '}', ':', ',', ']'
// Call getDetails() on the exception to get more info.
// returns parsed json, like json_decode() does, but slower, throws
// exceptions on failure.
$parser->parse($json);
You can also pass additional flags to JsonParser::lint/parse
that tweak the functionality:
JsonParser::DETECT_KEY_CONFLICTS
throws an exception on duplicate keys.JsonParser::ALLOW_DUPLICATE_KEYS
collects duplicate keys. e.g. if you have twofoo
keys they will end up asfoo
andfoo.2
.JsonParser::PARSE_TO_ASSOC
parses to associative arrays instead of stdClass objects.
Example:
$parser = new JsonParser;
try {
$parser->parse(file_get_contents($jsonFile), JsonParser::DETECT_KEY_CONFLICTS);
} catch (DuplicateKeyException $e) {
$details = $e->getDetails();
echo 'Key '.$details['key'].' is a duplicate in '.$jsonFile.' at line '.$details['line'];
}
Note: This library is meant to parse JSON while providing good error messages on failure. There is no way it can be as fast as php native
json_decode()
.It is recommended to parse with
json_decode
, and when it fails parse again with seld/jsonlint to get a proper error message back to the user. See for example how Composer uses this library:
Installation
For a quick install with Composer use:
$ composer require seld/jsonlint
JSON Lint can easily be used within another app if you have a PSR-4 autoloader, or it can be installed through Composer for use as a CLI util. Once installed via Composer you can run the following command to lint a json file or URL:
$ bin/jsonlint file.json
Requirements
- PHP 5.3+
- [optional] PHPUnit 3.5+ to execute the test suite (phpunit --version)
Submitting bugs and feature requests
Bugs and feature request are tracked on GitHub
Author
Jordi Boggiano - [email protected] - http://twitter.com/seldaek
License
JSON Lint is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
Acknowledgements
This library is a port of the JavaScript jsonlint library.