JsonCpp roadmap

Makes JsonCpp ready for release

• Build system clean-up:
  • Fix build on Windows (shared-library build is broken)
  • Add enable/disable flag for static and shared library build
  • Enhance help
• Platform portability check: (Notes: was ok on last check)
  • linux/gcc,
  • solaris/cc,
  • windows/msvc678,
  • aix/vacpp
• Add JsonCpp version to header as numeric for use in preprocessor test
• Remove buggy experimental hash stuff

Adds a strict mode to reader/parser

Strict JSON support as specific in RFC 4627 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627).

• Enforce only object or array as root element
• Disable comment support
  • Get jsonchecker failing tests to pass in strict mode

Writter control

Provides more control to determine how specific items are serialized when JSON allow choice:

• Optionally allow escaping of non-ASCII characters using unicode escape sequence "\\u".
• Optionally allow escaping of "/" using "\/".

Expose json reader/writer API that do not impose using Json::Value.

Some typical use-case involve an application specific structure to/from a JSON document.

• Event base parser to allow unserializing a Json document directly in datastructure instead of using the intermediate Json::Value.
• Stream based parser to serialized a Json document without using Json::Value as input.

Performance oriented parser/writer:

• Provides an event based parser. Should allow pulling & skipping events for ease of use.
• Provides a JSON document builder: fast only.

Performance tuning

• Provides support for static property name definition avoiding allocation
• Static property dictionnary can be provided to JSON reader
• Performance scenario & benchmarking

Testing

• Adds more tests for unicode parsing (e.g. including surrogate and error detection).