dijon - Dynamic JSON in Scala

• Boiler-free JSON wrangling using Scala Dynamic Types
• Support of RFC8259 using a codec based on jsoniter-scala-core that passes all JSONTestSuite checks
• Why yet another Scala JSON library? Well, code speaks more than thousand words:

val (name, age) = ("Tigri", 7)
val cat = json"""
  {
    "name": "$name",
    "age": $age,
    "hobbies": ["eating", "purring"],
    "is cat": true
  }
"""
assert(cat.name == name)                         // dynamic type
assert(cat.age == age)
val Some(catAge: Int) = cat.age.asInt
assert(catAge == age)
assert(cat.age.asBoolean == None)

val catMap = cat.toMap                           // view as a hashmap
assert(catMap.toMap.keysIterator.toSeq == Seq("name", "age", "hobbies", "is cat"))

assert(cat.hobbies(1) == "purring") // array access
assert(cat.hobbies(100) == None)    // missing element
assert(cat.`is cat` == true)        // keys with spaces/symbols/scala-keywords need to be escaped with ticks
assert(cat.email == None)           // missing key

val vet = `{}`                      // create empty json object
vet.name = "Dr. Kitty Specialist"   // set attributes in json object
vet.phones = `[]`                   // create empty json array
val phone = "(650) 493-4233"
vet.phones(2) = phone               // set the 3rd item in array to this phone
assert(vet.phones == mutable.Seq(None, None, phone))  // first 2 entries None

vet.address = `{}`
vet.address.name = "Animal Hospital"
vet.address.city = "Palo Alto"
vet.address.zip = 94306
assert(vet.address == mutable.Map[String, SomeJson]("name" -> "Animal Hospital", "city" -> "Palo Alto", "zip" -> 94306))

cat.vet = vet                            // set the cat.vet to be the vet json object we created above
assert(cat.vet.phones(2) == phone)
assert(cat.vet.address.zip == 94306)     // json deep access

println(cat) // {"name":"Tigri","age":7,"hobbies":["eating","purring"],"is cat":true,"vet":{"name":"Dr. Kitty Specialist","phones":[null,null,"(650) 493-4233"],"address":{"name":"Animal Hospital","city":"Palo Alto","zip":94306}}}

assert(cat == parse(cat.toString))   // round-trip test

var basicCat = cat -- "vet"                                  // remove 1 key
basicCat = basicCat -- ("hobbies", "is cat", "paws")         // remove multiple keys ("paws" is not in cat)
assert(basicCat == json"""{ "name": "Tigri", "age": 7}""")   // after dropping some keys above

• Simple deep-merging:

val scala = json"""
{
  "name": "scala",
  "version": "2.13.2",
  "features": {
    "functional": true,
    "awesome": true
  }
}
"""

val java = json"""
{
  "name": "java",
  "features": {
    "functional": [0, 0],
    "terrible": true
  },
  "bugs": 213
}
"""

val scalaCopy = scala.deepCopy
val javaCopy = java.deepCopy

assert((scala ++ java) == json"""{"name":"java","version":"2.13.2","features":{"functional":[0,0],"terrible":true,"awesome":true},"bugs":213}""")
assert((java ++ scala) == json"""{"name":"scala","version":"2.13.2","features":{"functional": true,"terrible":true,"awesome":true},"bugs":213}""")

assert(scala == scalaCopy)       // original json objects stay untouched after merging
assert(java == javaCopy)

• Union types for type-safety:

val json = `{}`
json.aString = "hi"                        // compiles
json.aBoolean = true                       // compiles
json.anInt = 23                            // compiles
//json.somethingElse = Option("hi")       // does not compile
val Some(i: Int) = json.anInt.asInt
assert(i == 23)
assert(json.aBoolean.asInt == None)

• obj() and arr() constructor functions for building up complex JSON values with less overhead:

val rick = obj(
  "name" -> name,
  "age" -> age,
  "class" -> "human",
  "weight" -> 175.1,
  "is online" -> true,
  "contact" -> obj(
    "emails" -> arr(email1, email2),
    "phone" -> obj(
      "home" -> "817-xxx-xxx",
      "work" -> "650-xxx-xxx"
    )
  ),
  "hobbies" -> arr(
    "eating",
    obj(
      "games" -> obj(
        "chess" -> true,
        "football" -> false
      )
    ),
    arr("coding", arr("python", "scala")),
    None
  ),
  "toMap" -> arr(23, 345, true),
  "apply" -> 42
)

See the spec for more examples.

Also, for the dijon.codec an additional functionality is available when using jsoniter-scala-core, like:

• parsing/serialization from/to byte arrays, byte buffers, and input/output streams
• parsing of streamed JSON values (concatenated or delimited by whitespace characters) and JSON arrays from input streams using callbacks without the need of holding a whole input in the memory
• use a custom configuration for parsing and serializing

See jsoniter-scala-core spec for more details and code samples.

Usage

1. Add the following to your build.sbt:

libraryDependency += "me.vican.jorge" %% "dijon" % "0.4.0"

2. Turn on support of dynamic types by adding import clause:

import scala.language.dynamics._

or by setting the scala compiler option:

scalacOptions += "-language:dynamics"

3. Add import of the package object of dijon for the main functionality:

import dijon._

4. Optionally, add import of package object of jsoniter-scala-core for extended json functionality:

import com.github.plokhotnyuk.jsoniter_scala.core._

TODO

• BigInt support
• Circular references checker
• YAML interpolator
• Macro for type inference to induce compile-time errors where possible
• JSON string interpolator fills in braces, quotes and commas etc