Delphi-JsonToDelphiClass

Fixes & Features: 06th February 2022

Features

• More interceptors where published in a new repo: https://github.com/JensBorrisholt/Json-Interceptors
• Added the possibility to download Pkg.Json.DTO.pas from www.Json2Delphi.com

Fixes & Features: 23th December 2021

Features

• Added ASP.NET interface: www.Json2Delphi.com
• Source code included

Fixes & Features: 03th October 2021

Bugs:

• Wrong type detection. '2019-08-29' wasn't recognized as a Date, but a string
• All unittests didn't pass
• In the generator main form, the correct JSON wans't allways read from the MEMO
• In the generator main form, the JSON wasn't allways updated

Features

• Upgraded to Delphi 11
• New property attribute : [SuppressZero] Delphi doesn't support Nullable types, so use this attribute to strip TDateTime property where value is 0.

A Small example:

type
  TDateTimeDTO = class(TJsonDTO)
  private
    [SuppressZero]
    FSuppressDate: TDateTime;
    FNoSuppressDate: TDateTime;
  public
    property DateSuppress: TDateTime read FSuppressDate write FSuppressDate;
    property NoDateSuppress: TDateTime read FNoSuppressDate write FNoSuppressDate;
  end;

The above class will generate the following JSON, if both properties is 0

  {
    "suppressDate":"",
    "noSuppressDate":"1899-12-30T00:00:00.000Z"
  }

NOTE: You can turn off this feature in the settings form

Fixes & Features: 04th June 2021

Bugs:

• An error message occured when switching between the diffrent demo files
• Dates without timestamp wasn't recognized within the RegEx
• Compile error in unit tests
• Updated elements in a list wasn't applied to the generated json.
• Issue #2 Out of memory error and High CPU usage - Thank You MarkRSill

Features

• Added unit tests for updating elements in lists.

Fixes & Features: 26th Marts 2021

Bugs:

• The same class name could appear multiple times:

E.g this JSON generated faulty code:

{
    "/": {
        "readonly": true
    },
    "\\": {
        "readonly": true
    }
} 

Fixes & Features: 22th December 2020

Bugs:

Features

• New main form. Completly rewritten.
• Support for BSON
• Support for Minify JSON
• Support for multiblt output formats
• JSON are now minifyed before posted to the validator. Means support for larger JSONs to be validated.
• Version 3.0 released.

Fixes & Features: 11th December 2020

Bugs:

• "id": "01010101" faulty generated a TDateTime property not string.
• Settings.AddJsonPropertyAttributes didn't generate a Property Attribute

Features

• JSON are now posted directly to the validator
• Better property name generator
• More unit tests

Fixes & Features: 24th November 2020

Bugs:

Features

• Possibility to change the postfix of ClassNames, via Settings Dialog. Default: DTO
• Settings Dialog rewritten to use LiveBindings
• Create a Demo Project, using your Json Data

Fixes & Features: 22th November 2020

Bugs:

• Demo generator didn't allways generate valid code
• Stopped the generator from generating surplus classes.

Features

• Non object arrays are now mapped into a TList instead of TArray
• Added a settings dialog and settings class
• Properties in PascalCase (Setting)
• Allways use JsonName property annotation (Setting)
• Support for objects with diffrents properties in an Array

Eg this JSON

{
   "ArrayTest":[
      {
           "S1":"5102"
      },
      {
           "S2":"True"
      }      
   ]
}

Generates the following DTO:

  TArrayTestDTO = class
  private
    FS1: string;
    FS2: string;
  published
    property S1: string read FS1 write FS1;
    property S2: string read FS2 write FS2;
  end;

Previous changes

• Only floating point numbers are mapped to Double
• Numbers are mapped to Integer or Int64 depending on their size
• Generated code restructored, and simplified
• Generated classes inheriteds from TJsonDTO
• Socurce Code restructored
• Parser logic seperated from GUI logic
• Fixed bug in the RegEx for recognizing an ISO8601 Date
• Serialization removed the "noise" of List i.e. includes internal properties that did not exist in the original JSON string.
• Generated code uses TObjectList

Generates Delphi Classes based on JSON string. Just like XML Data Binding, but for JSON.

Main features

• Build entirely on the RTL (no external dependencies) so it's cross-platform;
• Accepts any valid JSON string, no matter how complex the object is;
• Visualizes the structure of the JSON objects in a treeview;
• Generates complete delphi unit (declaration and implementation), based on the JSON string input;
• Automatically prefixes reserved Delphi words with "&" (ampersand);
• Support for JSON string that contains empty Array;
• Adds support code to automatically destroy complex sub types. So you don't have to manage subobject's lifetime manually;
• Uses TObjectList to represent lists;
• Adds helper serialization/deserialization functions;
• Serialization and deserialization results in the same JSON structure!
• Automatically detects date/datetime parts and maps them to TDate/TDateTime (as long as dates are ISO8601 compliant);
• Maps floating point numbers to Double
• Maps Number to Integer or Int64 depending on the number
• Maps true/false values to Boolean;
• Supports JSON pretty print to format the input string;
• Simple and responsive GUI;
• Automatic check for update, based on ITask (Parallel Programming Library)!
• It's open source! You can find the source code and binary releases on GitHub.

• If the JSON array is empty the contained type is unknown. Unit generation works only with known and supported types.

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