[ANNOUNCE] JSON-GLib 0.12.0 (Stable)

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hi everyone;

 

JSON-GLib 0.12.0 is now available for download at:

 

http://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/0.12/

 

Checksums:

 

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this is the first stable release of the JSON-GLib library for the 0.12

cycle.

 

JSON-GLib is a library providing serialization and deserialization

support for the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format described by

RFC 4627. JSON is:

 

a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read

and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based

on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262

3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely

language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to

programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java,

JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON

an ideal data-interchange language. -- From Introducing JSON

 

Many high-level languages already provide native modules for parsing,

generating and manipulating JSON data streams. JSON-GLib is a C library

based on GLib and released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General

Public License version 2.1. It provides a parser and a generator GObject

classes and various wrappers for the complex data types employed by

JSON, such as arrays and objects.

 

JSON-GLib uses GLib native data types and the generic value container

GValue for ease of development. It also provides integration with the

GObject classes for direct serialization into, and deserialization from,

JSON data streams.

 

JSON-GLib is currently used by projects like Clutter, CouchDB-GLib, the

Facebook-Chat Pidgin plugin, and many others.

 

JSON-GLib currently requires:

 

• GLib 2.16.0, or higher (includes: GObject and GIO requirements)

 

Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the json-glib

product.

 

JSON-GLib is available in GNOME Git repository:

 

http://git.gnome.org/browse/json-glib/

 

This release is API and ABI compatible with the previous releases of

JSON-GLib

 

List of changes since JSON-GLib 0.10:

 

• Support surrogate pairs in JSON strings [Eiichi Sato]

• Update the test suite

• Add (optional) coverage reports

• Improve strictness of JsonParser

• Improve error reporting of JsonParser

• Add methods for JsonParser and JsonGenerator to handle

Input|OutputStream objects coming from GIO.

• Add JsonBuilder, a convenience API for programmatic building of JSON

trees [Luca Bruno]

• Add JsonReader, a convenience API for cursor-based parsing of JSON

trees

• Depend on GObject-Introspection ≥ 0.9.5

 

Have fun!

 

ciao,

Emmanuele.

 

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