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

Example (with complete source code) to read a json configuration file:

https://github.com/sksodhi/CodeNuggets/tree/master/json/config_read

 > pwd
/root/CodeNuggets/json/config_read
 > ls
Makefile  README.md  ReadJsonCfg.cpp  cfg.json
 > cat cfg.json 
{
   "Note" : "This is a cofiguration file",
   "Config" : { 
       "server-ip"     : "10.10.10.20",
       "server-port"   : "5555",
       "buffer-length" : 5000
   }   
}
 > cat ReadJsonCfg.cpp 
#include <iostream>
#include <json/value.h>
#include <jsoncpp/json/json.h>
#include <fstream>

void 
displayCfg(const Json::Value &cfg_root);

int
main()
{
    Json::Reader reader;
    Json::Value cfg_root;
    std::ifstream cfgfile("cfg.json");
    cfgfile >> cfg_root;

    std::cout << "______ cfg_root : start ______" << std::endl;
    std::cout << cfg_root << std::endl;
    std::cout << "______ cfg_root : end ________" << std::endl;

    displayCfg(cfg_root);
}       

void 
displayCfg(const Json::Value &cfg_root)
{
    std::string serverIP = cfg_root["Config"]["server-ip"].asString();
    std::string serverPort = cfg_root["Config"]["server-port"].asString();
    unsigned int bufferLen = cfg_root["Config"]["buffer-length"].asUInt();

    std::cout << "______ Configuration ______" << std::endl;
    std::cout << "server-ip     :" << serverIP << std::endl;
    std::cout << "server-port   :" << serverPort << std::endl;
    std::cout << "buffer-length :" << bufferLen<< std::endl;
}
 > cat Makefile 
CXX = g++
PROG = readjsoncfg

CXXFLAGS += -g -O0 -std=c++11

CPPFLAGS += \
        -I. \
        -I/usr/include/jsoncpp

LDLIBS = \
                 -ljsoncpp

LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib $(LDLIBS)

all: $(PROG)
        @echo $(PROG) compilation success!

SRCS = \
        ReadJsonCfg.cpp
OBJS=$(subst .cc,.o, $(subst .cpp,.o, $(SRCS)))

$(PROG): $(OBJS)
        $(CXX) $^ $(LDFLAGS) -o $@

clean:
        rm -f $(OBJS) $(PROG) ./.depend

depend: .depend

.depend: $(SRCS)
        rm -f ./.depend
        $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -MM $^ >  ./.depend;

include .depend
 > make
Makefile:43: .depend: No such file or directory
rm -f ./.depend
g++ -g -O0 -std=c++11 -I. -I/usr/include/jsoncpp -MM ReadJsonCfg.cpp >  ./.depend;
g++ -g -O0 -std=c++11 -I. -I/usr/include/jsoncpp  -c -o ReadJsonCfg.o ReadJsonCfg.cpp
g++ ReadJsonCfg.o -L/usr/local/lib -ljsoncpp -o readjsoncfg
readjsoncfg compilation success!
 > ./readjsoncfg 
______ cfg_root : start ______
{
        "Config" : 
        {
                "buffer-length" : 5000,
                "server-ip" : "10.10.10.20",
                "server-port" : "5555"
        },
        "Note" : "This is a cofiguration file"
}
______ cfg_root : end ________
______ Configuration ______
server-ip     :10.10.10.20
server-port   :5555
buffer-length :5000
 >