JSON/SBJsonParser.h

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "SBJsonBase.h"

/**
 @brief The JSON parser class.
 
 JSON is mapped to Objective-C types in the following way:
 
 @li Null -> NSNull
 @li String -> NSMutableString
 @li Array -> NSMutableArray
 @li Object -> NSMutableDictionary
 @li Boolean -> NSNumber (initialised with -initWithBool:)
 @li Number -> (NSNumber | NSDecimalNumber)
 
 Since Objective-C doesn't have a dedicated class for boolean values, these turns into NSNumber
 instances. These are initialised with the -initWithBool: method, and 
 round-trip back to JSON properly. (They won't silently suddenly become 0 or 1; they'll be
 represented as 'true' and 'false' again.)
 
 As an optimisation short JSON integers turn into NSNumber instances, while complex ones turn into NSDecimalNumber instances.
 We can thus avoid any loss of precision as JSON allows ridiculously large numbers.
 
 */
@interface SBJsonParser : SBJsonBase {
    
@private
    const char *c;
}

/**
 @brief Return the object represented by the given string
 
 Returns the object represented by the passed-in string or nil on error. The returned object can be
 a string, number, boolean, null, array or dictionary.
 
 @param repr the json string to parse
 */
- (id)objectWithString:(NSString *)repr;

/**
 @brief Return the object represented by the given string
 
 Returns the object represented by the passed-in string or nil on error. The returned object can be
 a string, number, boolean, null, array or dictionary.
 
 @param jsonText the json string to parse
 @param error pointer to an NSError object to populate on error
 */

- (id)objectWithString:(NSString*)jsonText
                 error:(NSError**)error;


@end