cerbero90
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11 months ago Hi Faizan and thanks for your interest :)
JSON Machine is a fantastic project and I contributed to it in the past by letting JSON pointers iterate through nested arrays and fixing some bugs.
However it's not fully OOP, it's hard to debug and extend, runs extra loops and regex, works on limited JSON sources and its pointers aren't 100% accurate.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Filip and his hard work, but the points mentioned above and the need of extra functionalities (not easily implementable in JSON Machine) led me to the decision of creating my own parser.
The main difference between the two projects is that JSON Parser is able to parse JSONs of any dimension because it leverages recursive generators, whilst JSON Machine would run out of memory if a value is too large.
For completeness, here is a comprehensive list of the benefits of JSON Parser compared to JSON Machine:
- parsing of JSONs of any dimension thanks to recursive generators
- support for more JSON sources by default
- easy implementation of custom JSON sources to parse
- easy implementation of custom decoders
- ability to mix JSON pointers and lazy JSON pointers
- definition of callbacks to handle each JSON pointer with its own custom logic
- simple eager load of extracted sub-trees into array
- improved and easier errors handling
- ability to parse malformed JSONs and fix them on-the-fly
- automatic recognition of JSON sources
- single entry-point for an improved and simplified developer experience
- support for the Simdison decoder
- automatic detection of JSON dimension depending on the source
- automatic progress tracking
- fully customizable parsing through a fluent configuration
- fully OOP: the code is much easier to read, maintain and extend
- modern and shaped around PHP 8.1
- fully typed and commented with IDE-friendly docblocks
- PHPStan set to the max level to provide a complete static analysis
- less nested loops, conditions and regular expressions
- accurate and deeply tested JSON pointers
- complete set of exceptions to provide all the needed info and data for debugging purposes
faizanakram99
There is a already a package with 0 dependencies and over 3 million downloads doing more or less the same. How is this package different from it?