Re: [libvirt] Should we switch to a different JSON library?

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 14:05:25 CET Martin Kletzander wrote: > - Jansson [3] - I really like this one. The API seems very intuitive, > it has nice documentation [4] in readthedocs (and I'm > not talking about the visual style, but how easy is to > find information), it can be used for formatting JSON > in a similar way we are doing it. It has json_auto_t > (optional) type that uses the attribute cleanup for > automatic scope dereference (just in case we want to > use it), it has iterators... did I tell you I like this > one a lot? > > What do you (others) think of switching the JSON library? Do you know > about any other projects that could be used considering license, > platform support, etc.? Also feel free to fix any mistakes I might have > posted. I double-checked it, but you know, "trust, but verify". FYI: libguestfs just switched to Jansson [1], so any version starting from 1.39.1 will use it instead of Yajl. In case of libguestfs, yajl was used directly, without wrappers of any sort, and the switch was straightforward. [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/bd1c5c9f4dcf38458099db8a0...