jayson Parser

Because normal json is too good for me.

What is this?

Not json. See PROBLEM.md.

What to do with this?

• Read and run the unit tests:

$ python -m unittest tests.tokenizer.TestTokenizer

$ python -m unittest tests.parser.TestParser

(you probably don't really care much for the tokenizer as it's just an intermediate step, but hey, it's there)

• Fiddle around with the demo in demo.py. In it I used the parser to do some real processing with a jayson string.

$ python demo.py

TODO:

• Deal explicitly with object key uniqueness. Keys that appear more than once just have their values overwritten as the parser does its thing.

• Handle invalid input more gracefully, as well as add tests to ensure that invalid input results in expected failures.

Notes:

• The problem statement has a string with nested quotes: "A \"string\".\nFor real.". In python, string literals like these need to be prefixed with an r, like r"A \"string\".\nFor real.". Otherwise, the backslash will end up being treated as an escape character. This is relevant if you're reading the unit tests, you will notice some strings have the r prefix while others don't.