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=============================================================================== = JSONLab = = An open-source MATLAB/Octave JSON encoder and decoder = =============================================================================== *Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Qianqian Fang <fangq at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> *License: BSD or GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3), see License*.txt *Version: 1.1 (Optimus - Update 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Content: I. Introduction II. Installation III.Using JSONLab IV. Known Issues and TODOs V. Contribution and feedback ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction JSON ([http://www.json.org/ JavaScript Object Notation]) is a highly portable, human-readable and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON fat-free]" text format to represent complex and hierarchical data. It is as powerful as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML XML], but less verbose. JSON format is widely used for data-exchange in applications, and is essential for the wild success of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) Ajax] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Web2.0]. UBJSON (Universal Binary JSON) is a binary JSON format, specifically optimized for compact file size and better performance while keeping the semantics as simple as the text-based JSON format. Using the UBJSON format allows to wrap complex binary data in a flexible and extensible structure, making it possible to process complex and large dataset without accuracy loss due to text conversions. We envision that both JSON and its binary version will serve as part of the mainstream data-exchange formats for scientific research in the future. It will provide the flexibility and generality achieved by other popular general-purpose file specifications, such as [http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/whatishdf5.html HDF5], with significantly reduced complexity and enhanced performance. JSONLab is a free and open-source implementation of a JSON/UBJSON encoder and a decoder in the native MATLAB language. It can be used to convert a MATLAB data structure (array, struct, cell, struct array and cell array) into JSON/UBJSON formatted strings, or to decode a JSON/UBJSON file into MATLAB data structure. JSONLab supports both MATLAB and [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ GNU Octave] (a free MATLAB clone). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Installation The installation of JSONLab is no different than any other simple MATLAB toolbox. You only need to download/unzip the JSONLab package to a folder, and add the folder's path to MATLAB/Octave's path list by using the following command: addpath('/path/to/jsonlab'); If you want to add this path permanently, you need to type "pathtool", browse to the jsonlab root folder and add to the list, then click "Save". Then, run "rehash" in MATLAB, and type "which loadjson", if you see an output, that means JSONLab is installed for MATLAB/Octave. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III.Using JSONLab JSONLab provides two functions, loadjson.m -- a MATLAB->JSON decoder, and savejson.m -- a MATLAB->JSON encoder, for the text-based JSON, and two equivallent functions -- loadubjson and saveubjson for the binary JSON. The detailed help info for the four functions can be found below: === loadjson.m === <pre> data=loadjson(fname,opt) or data=loadjson(fname,'param1',value1,'param2',value2,...) parse a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file or string authors:Qianqian Fang (fangq<at> nmr.mgh.harvard.edu) created on 2011/09/09, including previous works from Nedialko Krouchev: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/25713 created on 2009/11/02 François Glineur: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23393 created on 2009/03/22 Joel Feenstra: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/20565 created on 2008/07/03 $Id: loadjson.m 487 2015-05-06 18:19:07Z fangq $ input: fname: input file name, if fname contains "{}" or "[]", fname will be interpreted as a JSON string opt: a struct to store parsing options, opt can be replaced by a list of ('param',value) pairs - the param string is equivallent to a field in opt. opt can have the following fields (first in [.|.] is the default) opt.SimplifyCell [0|1]: if set to 1, loadjson will call cell2mat for each element of the JSON data, and group arrays based on the cell2mat rules. opt.FastArrayParser [1|0 or integer]: if set to 1, use a speed-optimized array parser when loading an array object. The fast array parser may collapse block arrays into a single large array similar to rules defined in cell2mat; 0 to use a legacy parser; if set to a larger-than-1 value, this option will specify the minimum dimension to enable the fast array parser. For example, if the input is a 3D array, setting FastArrayParser to 1 will return a 3D array; setting to 2 will return a cell array of 2D arrays; setting to 3 will return to a 2D cell array of 1D vectors; setting to 4 will return a 3D cell array. opt.ShowProgress [0|1]: if set to 1, loadjson displays a progress bar. output: dat: a cell array, where {...} blocks are converted into cell arrays, and [...] are converted to arrays examples: dat=loadjson('{"obj":{"string":"value","array":[1,2,3]}}') dat=loadjson(['examples' filesep 'example1.json']) dat=loadjson(['examples' filesep 'example1.json'],'SimplifyCell',1) </pre> === savejson.m === <pre> json=savejson(rootname,obj,filename) or json=savejson(rootname,obj,opt) json=savejson(rootname,obj,'param1',value1,'param2',value2,...) convert a MATLAB object (cell, struct or array) into a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) string author: Qianqian Fang (fangq<at> nmr.mgh.harvard.edu) created on 2011/09/09 $Id: savejson.m 486 2015-05-05 20:37:11Z fangq $ input: rootname: the name of the root-object, when set to '', the root name is ignored, however, when opt.ForceRootName is set to 1 (see below), the MATLAB variable name will be used as the root name. obj: a MATLAB object (array, cell, cell array, struct, struct array). filename: a string for the file name to save the output JSON data. opt: a struct for additional options, ignore to use default values. opt can have the following fields (first in [.|.] is the default) opt.FileName [''|string]: a file name to save the output JSON data opt.FloatFormat ['%.10g'|string]: format to show each numeric element of a 1D/2D array; opt.ArrayIndent [1|0]: if 1, output explicit data array with precedent indentation; if 0, no indentation opt.ArrayToStruct[0|1]: when set to 0, savejson outputs 1D/2D array in JSON array format; if sets to 1, an array will be shown as a struct with fields "_ArrayType_", "_ArraySize_" and "_ArrayData_"; for sparse arrays, the non-zero elements will be saved to _ArrayData_ field in triplet-format i.e. (ix,iy,val) and "_ArrayIsSparse_" will be added with a value of 1; for a complex array, the _ArrayData_ array will include two columns (4 for sparse) to record the real and imaginary parts, and also "_ArrayIsComplex_":1 is added. opt.ParseLogical [0|1]: if this is set to 1, logical array elem will use true/false rather than 1/0. opt.NoRowBracket [1|0]: if this is set to 1, arrays with a single numerical element will be shown without a square bracket, unless it is the root object; if 0, square brackets are forced for any numerical arrays. opt.ForceRootName [0|1]: when set to 1 and rootname is empty, savejson will use the name of the passed obj variable as the root object name; if obj is an expression and does not have a name, 'root' will be used; if this is set to 0 and rootname is empty, the root level will be merged down to the lower level. opt.Inf ['"$1_Inf_"'|string]: a customized regular expression pattern to represent +/-Inf. The matched pattern is '([-+]*)Inf' and $1 represents the sign. For those who want to use 1e999 to represent Inf, they can set opt.Inf to '$11e999' opt.NaN ['"_NaN_"'|string]: a customized regular expression pattern to represent NaN opt.JSONP [''|string]: to generate a JSONP output (JSON with padding), for example, if opt.JSONP='foo', the JSON data is wrapped inside a function call as 'foo(...);' opt.UnpackHex [1|0]: conver the 0x[hex code] output by loadjson back to the string form opt.SaveBinary [0|1]: 1 - save the JSON file in binary mode; 0 - text mode. opt.Compact [0|1]: 1- out compact JSON format (remove all newlines and tabs) opt can be replaced by a list of ('param',value) pairs. The param string is equivallent to a field in opt and is case sensitive. output: json: a string in the JSON format (see http://json.org) examples: jsonmesh=struct('MeshNode',[0 0 0;1 0 0;0 1 0;1 1 0;0 0 1;1 0 1;0 1 1;1 1 1],... 'MeshTetra',[1 2 4 8;1 3 4 8;1 2 6 8;1 5 6 8;1 5 7 8;1 3 7 8],... 'MeshTri',[1 2 4;1 2 6;1 3 4;1 3 7;1 5 6;1 5 7;... 2 8 4;2 8 6;3 8 4;3 8 7;5 8 6;5 8 7],... 'MeshCreator','FangQ','MeshTitle','T6 Cube',... 'SpecialData',[nan, inf, -inf]); savejson('jmesh',jsonmesh) savejson('',jsonmesh,'ArrayIndent',0,'FloatFormat','\t%.5g') </pre> === loadubjson.m === <pre> data=loadubjson(fname,opt) or data=loadubjson(fname,'param1',value1,'param2',value2,...) parse a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file or string authors:Qianqian Fang (fangq<at> nmr.mgh.harvard.edu) created on 2013/08/01 $Id: loadubjson.m 487 2015-05-06 18:19:07Z fangq $ input: fname: input file name, if fname contains "{}" or "[]", fname will be interpreted as a UBJSON string opt: a struct to store parsing options, opt can be replaced by a list of ('param',value) pairs - the param string is equivallent to a field in opt. opt can have the following fields (first in [.|.] is the default) opt.SimplifyCell [0|1]: if set to 1, loadubjson will call cell2mat for each element of the JSON data, and group arrays based on the cell2mat rules. opt.IntEndian [B|L]: specify the endianness of the integer fields in the UBJSON input data. B - Big-Endian format for integers (as required in the UBJSON specification); L - input integer fields are in Little-Endian order. opt.NameIsString [0|1]: for UBJSON Specification Draft 8 or earlier versions (JSONLab 1.0 final or earlier), the "name" tag is treated as a string. To load these UBJSON data, you need to manually set this flag to 1. output: dat: a cell array, where {...} blocks are converted into cell arrays, and [...] are converted to arrays examples: obj=struct('string','value','array',[1 2 3]); ubjdata=saveubjson('obj',obj); dat=loadubjson(ubjdata) dat=loadubjson(['examples' filesep 'example1.ubj']) dat=loadubjson(['examples' filesep 'example1.ubj'],'SimplifyCell',1) </pre> === saveubjson.m === <pre> json=saveubjson(rootname,obj,filename) or json=saveubjson(rootname,obj,opt) json=saveubjson(rootname,obj,'param1',value1,'param2',value2,...) convert a MATLAB object (cell, struct or array) into a Universal Binary JSON (UBJSON) binary string author: Qianqian Fang (fangq<at> nmr.mgh.harvard.edu) created on 2013/08/17 $Id: saveubjson.m 465 2015-01-25 00:46:07Z fangq $ input: rootname: the name of the root-object, when set to '', the root name is ignored, however, when opt.ForceRootName is set to 1 (see below), the MATLAB variable name will be used as the root name. obj: a MATLAB object (array, cell, cell array, struct, struct array) filename: a string for the file name to save the output UBJSON data opt: a struct for additional options, ignore to use default values. opt can have the following fields (first in [.|.] is the default) opt.FileName [''|string]: a file name to save the output JSON data opt.ArrayToStruct[0|1]: when set to 0, saveubjson outputs 1D/2D array in JSON array format; if sets to 1, an array will be shown as a struct with fields "_ArrayType_", "_ArraySize_" and "_ArrayData_"; for sparse arrays, the non-zero elements will be saved to _ArrayData_ field in triplet-format i.e. (ix,iy,val) and "_ArrayIsSparse_" will be added with a value of 1; for a complex array, the _ArrayData_ array will include two columns (4 for sparse) to record the real and imaginary parts, and also "_ArrayIsComplex_":1 is added. opt.ParseLogical [1|0]: if this is set to 1, logical array elem will use true/false rather than 1/0. opt.NoRowBracket [1|0]: if this is set to 1, arrays with a single numerical element will be shown without a square bracket, unless it is the root object; if 0, square brackets are forced for any numerical arrays. opt.ForceRootName [0|1]: when set to 1 and rootname is empty, saveubjson will use the name of the passed obj variable as the root object name; if obj is an expression and does not have a name, 'root' will be used; if this is set to 0 and rootname is empty, the root level will be merged down to the lower level. opt.JSONP [''|string]: to generate a JSONP output (JSON with padding), for example, if opt.JSON='foo', the JSON data is wrapped inside a function call as 'foo(...);' opt.UnpackHex [1|0]: conver the 0x[hex code] output by loadjson back to the string form opt can be replaced by a list of ('param',value) pairs. The param string is equivallent to a field in opt and is case sensitive. output: json: a binary string in the UBJSON format (see http://ubjson.org) examples: jsonmesh=struct('MeshNode',[0 0 0;1 0 0;0 1 0;1 1 0;0 0 1;1 0 1;0 1 1;1 1 1],... 'MeshTetra',[1 2 4 8;1 3 4 8;1 2 6 8;1 5 6 8;1 5 7 8;1 3 7 8],... 'MeshTri',[1 2 4;1 2 6;1 3 4;1 3 7;1 5 6;1 5 7;... 2 8 4;2 8 6;3 8 4;3 8 7;5 8 6;5 8 7],... 'MeshCreator','FangQ','MeshTitle','T6 Cube',... 'SpecialData',[nan, inf, -inf]); saveubjson('jsonmesh',jsonmesh) saveubjson('jsonmesh',jsonmesh,'meshdata.ubj') </pre> === examples === Under the "examples" folder, you can find several scripts to demonstrate the basic utilities of JSONLab. Running the "demo_jsonlab_basic.m" script, you will see the conversions from MATLAB data structure to JSON text and backward. In "jsonlab_selftest.m", we load complex JSON files downloaded from the Internet and validate the loadjson/savejson functions for regression testing purposes. Similarly, a "demo_ubjson_basic.m" script is provided to test the saveubjson and loadubjson functions for various matlab data structures. Please run these examples and understand how JSONLab works before you use it to process your data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Known Issues and TODOs JSONLab has several known limitations. We are striving to make it more general and robust. Hopefully in a few future releases, the limitations become less. Here are the known issues: # 3D or higher dimensional cell/struct-arrays will be converted to 2D arrays; # When processing names containing multi-byte characters, Octave and MATLAB \ can give different field-names; you can use feature('DefaultCharacterSet','latin1') \ in MATLAB to get consistant results # savejson can not handle class and dataset. # saveubjson converts a logical array into a uint8 ([U]) array # an unofficial N-D array count syntax is implemented in saveubjson. We are \ actively communicating with the UBJSON spec maintainer to investigate the \ possibility of making it upstream # loadubjson can not parse all UBJSON Specification (Draft 9) compliant \ files, however, it can parse all UBJSON files produced by saveubjson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Contribution and feedback JSONLab is an open-source project. This means you can not only use it and modify it as you wish, but also you can contribute your changes back to JSONLab so that everyone else can enjoy the improvement. For anyone who want to contribute, please download JSONLab source code from its source code repositories by using the following command: git clone https://github.com/fangq/jsonlab.git jsonlab or browsing the github site at https://github.com/fangq/jsonlab alternatively, if you prefer svn, you can checkout the latest code by using svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/iso2mesh/code/trunk/jsonlab jsonlab You can make changes to the files as needed. Once you are satisfied with your changes, and ready to share it with others, please cd the root directory of JSONLab, and type git diff --no-prefix > yourname_featurename.patch or svn diff > yourname_featurename.patch You then email the .patch file to JSONLab's maintainer, Qianqian Fang, at the email address shown in the beginning of this file. Qianqian will review the changes and commit it to the subversion if they are satisfactory. We appreciate any suggestions and feedbacks from you. Please use the following mailing list to report any questions you may have regarding JSONLab: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/jsonlab-users (Subscription to the mailing list is needed in order to post messages).
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