Can someone explain how JSON partners work without using eval?

Question

I cannot understand how this works without using eval - what is the secret of this?

Edit: Can someone provide a trivial example of how a tree structure is converted to an object?

Answer 1

trivial example of how to convert a string from json to an object without eval:

  var txt='[\'one\',\'two\']';

  var re1='(\\[)';  // Any Single Character 1
  var re2='(\\\'.*?\\\')';  // Single Quote String 1
  var re3='(,)';    // Any Single Character 2
  var re4='(\\\'.*?\\\')';  // Single Quote String 2
  var re5='(\\])';  // Any Single Character 3

  var p = new RegExp(re1+re2+re3+re4+re5,["i"]);
  var m = p.exec(txt);
  if (m != null)
  {
      var c1=m[1];
      var s1=m[2];
      var c2=m[3];
      var s2=m[4];
      var c3=m[5];

      return [s1, s2];
  }
  return null;

Yes, this is a terrible way to do this, but it does what it claims for this line: p

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Take a look at my parser for a good idea. This is not perfect, but the code is pretty simple.

public static JsonStructure Parse(string jsonText)
{
    var result = default(JsonStructure);
    var structureStack = new Stack<JsonStructure>();
    var keyStack = new Stack<string>();
    var current = default(JsonStructure);
    var currentState = ParserState.Begin;
    var key = default(string);
    var value = default(object);

    foreach (var token in Lexer.Tokenize(jsonText))
    {
        switch (currentState)
        {
            case ParserState.Begin:
                switch (token.Type)
                {
                    case TokenType.BeginObject:
                        currentState = ParserState.Name;
                        current = result = new JsonObject();
                        break;
                    case TokenType.BeginArray:
                        currentState = ParserState.Value;
                        current = result = new JsonArray();
                        break;
                    default:
                        throw new JsonException(token, currentState);
                }
                break;
            case ParserState.Name:
                switch (token.Type)
                {
                    case TokenType.String:
                        currentState = ParserState.NameSeparator;
                        key = (string)token.Value;
                        break;
                    default:
                        throw new JsonException(token, currentState);
                }
                break;
            case ParserState.NameSeparator:
                switch (token.Type)
                {
                    case TokenType.NameSeparator:
                        currentState = ParserState.Value;
                        break;
                    default:
                        throw new JsonException(token, currentState);
                }
                break;
            case ParserState.Value:
                switch (token.Type)
                {
                    case TokenType.Number:
                    case TokenType.String:
                    case TokenType.True:
                    case TokenType.False:
                    case TokenType.Null:
                        currentState = ParserState.ValueSeparator;
                        value = token.Value;
                        break;
                    case TokenType.BeginObject:
                        structureStack.Push(current);
                        keyStack.Push(key);
                        currentState = ParserState.Name;
                        current = new JsonObject();
                        break;
                    case TokenType.BeginArray:
                        structureStack.Push(current);
                        currentState = ParserState.Value;
                        current = new JsonArray();
                        break;
                    default:
                        throw new JsonException(token, currentState);
                }
                break;
            case ParserState.ValueSeparator:
                var jsonObject = (current as JsonObject);
                var jsonArray = (current as JsonArray);
                if (jsonObject != null)
                {
                    jsonObject.Add(key, value);
                    currentState = ParserState.Name;
                }
                if (jsonArray != null)
                {
                    jsonArray.Add(value);
                    currentState = ParserState.Value;
                }
                switch (token.Type)
                {
                    case TokenType.EndObject:
                    case TokenType.EndArray:
                        currentState = ParserState.End;
                        break;
                    case TokenType.ValueSeparator:
                        break;
                    default:
                        throw new JsonException(token, currentState);
                }
                break;
            case ParserState.End:
                switch (token.Type)
                {
                    case TokenType.EndObject:
                    case TokenType.EndArray:
                    case TokenType.ValueSeparator:
                        var previous = structureStack.Pop();
                        var previousJsonObject = (previous as JsonObject);
                        var previousJsonArray = (previous as JsonArray);
                        if (previousJsonObject != null)
                        {
                            previousJsonObject.Add(keyStack.Pop(), current);
                            currentState = ParserState.Name;
                        }
                        if (previousJsonArray != null)
                        {
                            previousJsonArray.Add(current);
                            currentState = ParserState.Value;
                        }
                        if (token.Type != TokenType.ValueSeparator)
                        {
                            currentState = ParserState.End;
                        }
                        current = previous;
                        break;
                    default:
                        throw new JsonException(token, currentState);
                }
                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

Answer 7

JSON is a representation of native data. This is just a creative implementation of the embedded JavaScript format. Being native, it does not need to be "disassembled" (in the sense that the programmer needs to worry about it) at all.