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Wednesday, May 18th 2011, 12:02am

Experiments with JSON serialization

I have been playing around with FLEXJSON, a free Java package for translating objects into JSON Strings (= serialization) and JSON Strings into objects (= de-serialization).

The demo code:

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Option Explicit

'
'  Demo for FLEXJSON serializer/deserializer in Jabaco
'
'  cf.  http://flexjson.sourceforge.net/
'
'  Make sure that flexjson-2.1.jar is included in the classpath
'

#Import flexjson
#Import java#util#ArrayList 
#Import java#util#LinkedList 

Public Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim serializer As New JSONSerializer()
   Dim deserializer As New JSONDeserializer()
   Dim s As String
   Dim p1 As New clsPerson("Paul", 16)
   Dim p2 As New clsPerson("Peter", 5)
   Dim p As clsPerson
   Dim list1 As New LinkedList()
   Dim list2 As ArrayList
   
   list1.add p1
   list1.add p2
   
   s = serializer.serialize(list1)
   
   Debug.Print s
   
   '  FLEXJSON returns an ArrayList rather than a LinkedList
   list2 = Cast(deserializer.deserialize(s), ArrayList)
   
   For Each p In list2
      Debug.Print p.name 
   Next 
   
End Sub


My demo class clsPerson

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Option Explicit

'  FLEXJSON does not recognize our public getters/setters
'  so we declare our member variables public for the time being
Public myName As String
Public myAge As Integer 

'  constructor
Public Sub clsPerson(name As String, age As Integer)
   Me.name = name
   Me.age = age
End Sub

'  FLEXJSON insists that objects should have a parameterless constructor
Public Sub clsPerson()
   Me.name = "name ???"
   Me.age = 0
End Sub

Public Property Get name() As String
   name = myName
End Property

Public Property Let name(n As String)
   myName = n
End Property

Public Property Get age() As Integer
   age = myAge
End Property

Public Property Let age(a As Integer)
   myAge = a
End Property


The debugging output is probably no surprise:

Quoted


[{"class":"clsPerson","myAge":16,"myName":"Paul"},{"class":"clsPerson","myAge":5,"myName":"Peter"}]
Paul
Peter


Consult the FLEXJSON home for more details and features.

There might be better packages available than FLEXJSON. Any suggestions?

Enjoy!

A1880

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