This project implements a read-only JSON parser in Go

This file provides a custom JSON parser suitable for processing Twitter data. Some differences from the standard Golang json package:

• Parses numbers into int64 where possible, float64 otherwise.
• Faster! Probably due to less reflection:

Real-world Tweet example (Std is encoding/json):

BenchmarkStdJSON          10000    158362 ns/op
BenchmarkJSON             10000    122690 ns/op

The following numbers use a contrived small example. Untyped unmarshals into an []interface{} while Bucket unmarshals into a type using reflection:

BenchmarkStdBucket       200000     10781 ns/op
BenchmarkBucket          500000      5455 ns/op
BenchmarkUntypedBucket  1000000      2747 ns/op

This library also performs escaped UTF-8 entity decoding on strings, so you get the raw runes instead of escaped \u#### sequences.

This is a relatively new JSON parser so there's certainly edge cases which may throw errors or otherwise parse incorrectly. Please file bugs / submit tests! I'm happy to fix issues.

That being said, this library is very compatible with Twitter's JSON encoding. It has been able to parse messages from Twitter's 1% stream for hours without issue.

Run

go get github.com/kurrik/json

Include in your source:

import "github.com/kurrik/json"

Run

go get -u github.com/kurrik/json

go test -bench=".*"

Most edge cases are tested in compat_test.go. Please add cases if you find any!