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org.brutusin:json is a service provider interface (SPI) that aggregates all the JSON-related functionality needed by the rest of Brutusin modules.

This module defines the general contract required to any implementing JSON service provider, allowing to use different pluggable implementations and decoupling client modules from them.

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Maven dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.brutusin</groupId>
    <artifactId>json</artifactId>
    <version>${json.version}</version>
</dependency>

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SPI

JsonCodec is the single entry point to the framework. It defines a SPI (service provider interface) that is implemented by pluggable service providers. Clients of the service make use of it by calling:

JsonCodec.getInstance()

JsonCodec provides three types of operations: Data operations (inherited from JsonDataCodec), schema operations (inherited from JsonSchemaCodec) and path expression operations (via compile(String expression))

Class diagram

Data

Data methods declared in JsonDataCodec offer Object/JSON binding (get JSON representations from objects and object tree instantiation from JSON data) and a generic API to interact with JSON data in a generic way (JsonNode).

JSON Schema

A JSON schema (specifications) is a JSON document that describes the structure of other JSON documents.

Schemas are represented by the interface JsonSchema, and instantiated by the methods in JsonSchemaCodec, either by parsing the JSON Schema document (parseSchema(String json)) and by reflection from a Class instance (getSchema(Class<T> clazz)).

This module adheres to the JSON schema specification defined in http://brutusin.org/json/json-schema-spec

Validation

Schemas are useful both for describing the structure and for validating JsonSchema.validate(JsonNode node) that JSON data complies the constraints imposed by them.

Path expressions

See extension specification.

See ExpressionTest for some examples.

Java Annotations

Schema generation annotations

The following annotations can be used to customize schema generation, and must be supported by all providers:

Standard schema properties

Custom schema properties

Streaming API

This SPI supports binary attachments in JSON data, a feature that enables serialization/deserialization of properties of type InputStream or MetaDataInputStream.

JsonStreamCodec declares the SPI functionality related with binary attachments.

Service Providers

Service providers are modules implementing this SPI and registering themselves via the ServiceLoader standard facility.

JUnit tests for implementing providers

All service providers must pass the JUnit tests included in this module. In order to that, the following maven dependence has to be included

<dependency>
     <groupId>org.brutusin</groupId>
     <artifactId>json</artifactId>
     <type>test-jar</type>
     <version>${json.version}</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

and predefined tests have to be extended by the service provider tests.

Reference implementation

See org.brutusin:json-provider for a reference implementation.

ToDos

See also

Support bugs and requests

https://github.com/brutusin/json/issues

Authors

Contributions are always welcome and greatly appreciated!

License

Apache License, Version 2.0