CypherPotato.LightJson 0.5.5

LightJson

This project was based in the incredible work LightJson, originally made by Marcos Lopez C.

This fork includes some personal tweaks. It's aimed to read/write JSON messages without automatic type mapping. It alsos does not use Source Generators to read or write messages, which makes it possible to build code with bflat and also features manual object mapping.

Almost everything in this class is inherited from the main project mentioned above, however, there are these changes:

• Unlike the original project, a JsonValue does not contain any AsFoobar properties, but has a method for each GetFoobar(), and the main difference is that you cannot get an implicit value of what the JsonValue is. For example, you cannot read JsonValue.GetBoolean() if the stored value is a string.
• All functions that return an object converted from a JsonValue, such as JsonValue.GetString() for example, do not return nullable values. You can check for nullable JSON values using JsonValue.MaybeNull().
• You can search for objects in an ignore-case manner if you set JsonOptions.PropertyNameCaseInsensitive to true.
• Undefined values will come with JsonValueType.Undefined instead of JsonValueType.Null.
• This projects only targets .NET 6 and above.

Additionally, this library includes these new features:

Create JsonValues from any kind of object:

object anonymousObject = new
{
    foo = "bar"
};

string json = new JsonValue(anonymousObject).ToString();

Create custom mappers (a.k.a. converters):

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    JsonOptions.Mappers.Add(new DatetimeMapper());

    string json = new JsonValue(DateTime.Now).ToString();

    Console.WriteLine(json);
}

public class DatetimeMapper : JsonSerializerMapper
{
    public override Boolean CanSerialize(Type obj)
    {
        return obj == typeof(DateTime);
    }

    public override Object Deserialize(JsonValue value)
    {
        return DateTime.Parse(value.GetString());
    }

    public override JsonValue Serialize(Object value)
    {
        DateTime t = (DateTime)value;
        return new JsonValue(t.ToString("s"));
    }
}

Fluent syntax for retrieving items:

// $.foobar must be present, non null and carry an string value.
string stringValue = obj["foobar"].GetString();

// $.bazdaz can be null or undefined, but if not, it must be an string.
string? optionalValue = obj["bazdaz"].MaybeNull()?.GetString();

// $.duzkaz must be present, non null, be an json array and every children on it
// must be an string value.
string[] arrayItems = obj["duzkaz"].GetJsonArray().Select(i => i.GetString()).ToArray();

// $.user must be present, non null, and must be mapped to User, which it's mapper
// is defined on JsonOptions.Mappers.
User user = obj["user"].Map<User>();