LlJsonValueType
{{LSL Function |inject-2= |func_id=|func_sleep=0.0|func_energy=0.0 |func=llJsonValueType|return_type=string |p1_type=string|p1_name=json|p1_desc=A string serialization of a json object. |p2_type=list|p2_name=specifiers|p2_desc=A path to a value in the json parameter. |func_footnote |func_desc=Gets the JSON type for the value in json at the location specifiers. |Return_text=specifying the type of the value at specifiers in json. |spec=See Json_usage_in_LSL |constants=
Type Flags | Value | Unicode | Integer | URL Encoded | HTML Encoded | Description |
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JSON_INVALID | | U+FDDO | 64976 | "%EF%B7%90" |  | Value returned when inputs are not well formed. |
JSON_OBJECT | | U+FDD1 | 64977 | "%EF%B7%91" |  | |
JSON_ARRAY | | U+FDD2 | 64978 | "%EF%B7%92" |  | |
JSON_NUMBER | | U+FDD3 | 64979 | "%EF%B7%93" |  | |
JSON_STRING | | U+FDD4 | 64980 | "%EF%B7%94" |  | |
JSON_NULL | | U+FDD5 | 64981 | "%EF%B7%95" |  | |
JSON_TRUE | | U+FDD6 | 64982 | "%EF%B7%96" |  | |
JSON_FALSE | | U+FDD7 | 64983 | "%EF%B7%97" |  | |
JSON_DELETE | | U+FDD8 | 64984 | "%EF%B7%98" |  | Used with llJsonSetValue to remove a key-value pair. |
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//all these functions are untested functions that may have some very strange cases were they acd badly or where the comments are wrong
//see them as buggy PSEUDO-code and consider yourself lucky if there are less than 2 wrong counters and 4 bad pointers/names.
//they are more an example and a concept and unlikely fully functional AS IS.
string JisN(string j){if(llJsonValueType(j,[])==JSON_NUMBER )return llJsonGetValue(j,[]);return "";} //return the JSON if "j" is a JSON_NUMBER, like j="10.1234" j="-0.1234" j="3.14159" j="-1" j="123456" otherwise return ""; //these would be sting representations of a float because j is a string. //storing floats in a JSON will easily lose you a lot of accuracy. Integers stored in JSON may have a smaller range than 32-bit signed integers.
string JisA(string j){if(llJsonValueType(j,[])==JSON_ARRAY )return llJsonGetValue(j,[]);return "";} //return the JSON if "j" is a JSON_ARRAY, like j="[]" j="[1,2]" j="[[1],[3,4]]" otherwise return ""; //these would be string representations of a (nested) list because j is a string.
string JisS(string j){if(llJsonValueType(j,[])==JSON_STRING )return llJsonGetValue(j,[]);return "";} //return the string that is stored in "j" if "j" is a JSON_STRING, like j="\"PI\"" j="\"3.14\"" j="\"-1\"" otherwise return ""; //these would be string representations of a string, typecast with \" as that within itself, //because j is a string that is also able to store numbers and floats and (nested) lists ... as strings. //this returns the string within "j" if "j" is "A string within a string".
/*the above functions return strings to be used in simple if(JisN(j)){} if(JisA(j)){} if(JisS(j)){} //conditions as if they are booleans. //the boolean-ish condition works because "" equals FALSE within LSL. The functions MAY return a JSON_STRING or JSON_ARRAY can be useful recursively as shown below:
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JstringPARSED(string j){
//j="\"PI\""; //j="\"3.14\""; //j="\"-1\""; string JayWeHaveToGoDeeperS = JisS(JisS(j)); llOwnerSay( JayWeHaveToGoDeeperS ); // says "PI", or "" , or "" , because "3.14" is a JSON_NUMBER and "-1" is a JSON_NUMBER but not a JSON_STRING string JayWeHaveToGoDeeperN = JisN(JisS(j)); llOwnerSay( JayWeHaveToGoDeeperN ); // says "" , or "3.14000" , or "-1.0000", because "PI" is a JSON_STRING but "PI" is not a JSON_NUMBER
if (llJsonValueType(j,[])==JSON_INVALID){}//would be TRUE for j="";
}
//==== End of JstringPARSED(j) ===== start of Jnested(j) for nested/recursive lists =====
Jnested(string j){
//j="[]"; //j="[[1],[2]]"; //j="[-1,[2]]"; //j="[[1],-2]"; //j="-3,-4"; //the only true case HERE for = JisA(JisA(j)); below string JayWeHaveToGoDeeperA = JisA(JisA(j)); string subJ=JisA(j); if (subJ){ //here you actually have to loop trough each entry of the subJ JSON_LIST to test its TYPE for each entry (if we want to go deeper recursively) //You can go deeper once you know if entry number x is a JSON_LIST (NESTED!!!) or JSON_STRING (for some reason) //first see how many list entries there are; we go trough entries of subJ starting on the left until its a JSON_INVALID list types; integer i = -1; while (++i != -1){ string type=llJsonValueType(j,[i]);//stores the TYPE of "j"'s entry at position i as "type" if (type==JSON_INVALID) i=-2; //this exits this the while-loop else types += [type]; // the list "types" will store all the JSON types, until the first invalid one is reached. (which which should also be for "out of bounds" } //this is split in 2 loops to explain 1 task by splitting it in 2 smaller tasks. Actually the loops above and below could be merged easily. i=llGetListLength(types);//we now have a list that lists all JSON types of j; lets see how long it is; //and we loop trough all types, calling THIS function recursively if the list contains another nested list in it at position i while (i--){//I like to go reverse from right to left when ever possible, its faster (??) and costs less memory in LSL (??) if (llList2String(types,i)==JSON_ARRAY){ Jnested(llJsonGetValue(j,[i]));//the function calls itself here, recursively... //but only sends the i#th SUB.list of itself trough an instance of itself. } else{ llOwnerSay(llJsonGetValue(j,[i])); //read from your list what json type is at this position and do something with it. //maybe you need a global counter that increases each time you go "one nested list deeper" and decreases when you go "one nested list back up". //otherwise you may not know how deep you are within nested lists. } } }
} //Jnested(j) should be useful to read from large matrices (as in 300x300 fields) that may even contain complex numbers at some places. //I tried to read very long JSONs with llGetSubString(), but llGetSubString() too easily stack-heap collides on very long strings, //so you have to go trough the nested list using Jnested(j) to read and print it per entry.
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|cat1=List
|cat2=String
|cat3=Data Conversion
|cat4=JSON
|history = Date of Release 20/05/2013
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