Roadmap [Deprecated]

This roadmap is preserved for historical context and contains goals that have largely been addressed or superseded.

Adding a strict mode to reader/parser

Strict JSON support as specified in RFC 4627.

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

Writer control

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

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

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

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

• Event-based parser to allow unserializing a JSON document directly into a data structure instead of using the intermediate Json::Value.
• Stream-based parser to serialize a JSON document without using Json::Value as input.

Performance-oriented parser/writer

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

Performance tuning

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

Testing

• Add more tests for Unicode parsing (e.g., including surrogate and error detection).

Making JsonCpp ready for release

• Build system clean-up:
  • Fix build on Windows (shared-library build is broken).
  • Compile and run tests using shared library on Windows to ensure no JSON_API macro is missing.
  • Add enable/disable flag for static and shared library build.
  • Enhance help.
• Platform portability check:
  • Linux/GCC
  • Solaris/CC
  • Windows/MSVC
  • AIX/VACPP
• Add JsonCpp version to header as numeric for use in preprocessor test.
• Remove buggy experimental hash stuff.