Reading json files in C++

Question

I\'m trying to read in a JSON file. So far I have focused on using the jsoncpp library. However, the documentation is quite hard to understand for me. Could anyone

Answer 1

You can use c++ boost::property_tree::ptree for parsing json data. here is the example for your json data. this would be more easy if you shift name inside each child nodes

#include                                                              
#include                                                                
#include                                                                 

#include                                         
#include  
 int main () {

    namespace pt = boost::property_tree;                                        
    pt::ptree loadPtreeRoot;                                                    

    pt::read_json("example.json", loadPtreeRoot);                               
    std::vector> people;      

    pt::ptree temp ;                                                            
    pt::ptree tage ;                                                            
    pt::ptree tprofession ;                                                     

    std::string age ;                                                           
    std::string profession ;                                                    
    //Get first child                                                           
    temp = loadPtreeRoot.get_child("Anna");                                     
    tage = temp.get_child("age");                                               
    tprofession = temp.get_child("profession");                                 

    age =  tage.get_value();                                       
    profession =  tprofession.get_value();                         
    std::cout << "age: " << age << "\n" << "profession :" << profession << "\n" ;
    //push tuple to vector                                                      
    people.push_back(std::make_tuple("Anna", age, profession));                 

    //Get Second child                                                          
    temp = loadPtreeRoot.get_child("Ben");                                      
    tage = temp.get_child("age");                                               
    tprofession = temp.get_child("profession");                                 

    age =  tage.get_value();                                       
    profession  =  tprofession.get_value();                        
    std::cout << "age: " << age << "\n" << "profession :" << profession << "\n" ;
    //push tuple to vector                                                      
    people.push_back(std::make_tuple("Ben", age, profession));                  

    for (const auto& tmppeople: people) {                                       
        std::cout << "Child[" << std::get<0>(tmppeople) << "] = " << "  age : " 
        << std::get<1>(tmppeople) << "\n    profession : " << std::get<2>(tmppeople) << "\n";
    }  
}