jansson

C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

akheron
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Jansson_ is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON
data. Its main features and design principles are:

  • Simple and intuitive API and data model

  • Comprehensive documentation_

  • No dependencies on other libraries

  • Full Unicode support (UTF-8)

  • Extensive test suite

Jansson is licensed under the MIT license_; see LICENSE in the
source distribution for details.

Compilation and Installation

If you obtained a jansson-X.Y.tar.* tarball from GitHub Releases, just use
the standard autotools commands::

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

To run the test suite, invoke::

$ make check

If the source has been checked out from a Git repository, the configure
script has to be generated first. The easiest way is to use autoreconf::

$ autoreconf -i

Documentation

Documentation is available at http://jansson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

The documentation source is in the doc/ subdirectory. To generate
HTML documentation, invoke::

$ make html

Then, point your browser to doc/_build/html/index.html. Sphinx_
1.0 or newer is required to generate the documentation.

Community

  • Documentation <http://jansson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>_
  • Issue tracker <https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues>_
  • Mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/jansson-users>_
  • Wiki <https://github.com/akheron/jansson/wiki>_ contains some development documentation

… _Jansson: http://www.digip.org/jansson/
… _Comprehensive documentation: http://jansson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
… _MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
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