I'm learning Rust by re-implementing my streaming JSON parser originally written in Python
I had this idea for a while to learn a few modern languages by porting my iterative JSON parser written in Python as a test case. It only makes sense because, unlike most tutorials, it provides you with a real real-world problem and in the end you might also get ...
It took me a while but I've finally implemented a working parser on top of the lexer in my little Rust learning project. I learned a lot and feel much more comfortable with the language by now. In the meantime I even managed to get out to a Rust Seattle ...
Today marks a milestone: with implementation of string unescaping my json parser actually produces entirely correct output! Which doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to use or particularly fast yet. But one step at a time :-) The code came out rather small, here's the whole function (source): fn unescape(s: &str) ...
Object builder is what makes a parser actually useful: it takes a sequence of raw parser events and creates strings, numbers, arrays, maps, etc. With this, ijson is functionally complete. Filtering Ijson can filter parser events based on a path down JSON hierarchy. For example, in a file like this: ...
While I fully expected to have difficulty switching from the paradigm of raising and catching exception to checking return values, I wasn't ready to Rust requiring so much code to implement it properly (i.e., by the bible). So this is the one where I complain… Non-complaint I won't be talking ...
Catching up on my Rust learning diaries… Today I'm going to tell you about releaving my Lexer from its Pythonic legacy and what tangible results it produced, beside just being The Right Thing™. Basic idea The original lexer yielded three kinds of lexemes: strings enclosed in quotes: "..." multi-character literals ...