Rust Json-Walker

Parse json stream or text by this library. The main idea is to maintain a cursor and move it forward till the desired element be found, so json can be partially visible.

Verification happens during parsing. If json is malformed, it will panic. Deserialization will return Error

• Please notice that backward walking is not supported.
• async operation is not supported by default, but there is a way to do that through channels. Check out the following examples.
• "null", "true" & "false" are not supported in capital mode, If you need to have them, modify parser_core.rs file and uncomment lines which are marked with "support_capital_word" phrase (Both are placed in extract_word() function).
• To deserialize a part of json, you need to enable "deserialize" feature

Features

deserialize -> enable deserialization via current_value() function

Some provided methods

get_current_level -> if we consider json as a tree, nodes can have level
get_path -> the path of a node from tree root
seek_by_level_offset -> jump to the node by its level
next_item -> next key or value
next_key -> just get next key, no matter if it is in children nodes, parent node or siblings
next_key_by_name -> parse json till a specific key
next_sibling_key -> jump to the next sibling key
next_item_by_pattern -> if you are looking for a specific item, jump to it
current_value_content -> where ever the cursor is, the related value will be return as content
current_value -> where ever the cursor is, the related value will be returned as deserialized (enable "deserialize" feature for this one)

Example

use json_walker::json_walker::{Item, JsonWalker, ValueType, StringReader};

fn main() {
    // we are looking for "key2"
    let json = r#"{"key1": null, "key2": true, "key3": false, "key4": 111}"#;
    let mut walker = JsonWalker::from_string(StringReader::new(json.to_string()), 0);
    let result = walker.next_key_by_name("key2");
    assert_eq!(
        Some((ValueType::Str, String::from("key2"))),
        result
    );
}

use json_walker::json_walker::{CurrentState, Item, JsonWalker, ValueType};

fn main() {
    let json = r#"[{"key1":{"key4":100},"key2":10},[{"key1":{"key4":300}, "key3":100}],"key1"]"#;
    let mut walker = JsonWalker::from_string(StringReader::new(json.to_string()), 0);
    let pattern = vec![
        |cs: &CurrentState| -> bool{
            cs.level == 2.0 && cs.nth_occurrence == 0
        },
        |cs: &CurrentState| -> bool{
            cs.latest_key.eq("key1") && cs.level == 3.0
        },
        |cs: &CurrentState| -> bool{
            cs.latest_key.eq("key4")
        },
    ];

    let item = walker.next_item_by_pattern(&pattern);
    assert_eq!(item, Some((ValueType::Str, String::from("key4"))));
}

This library does not support async by default. It must be handled by Reader. The reader is a Box<Iterator<Item=u8>>.

The following is a sample of handling async reader:

use json_walker::json_walker::JsonWalker;

use crate::stream_reader::StreamReader;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
  let reader = StreamReader::new("path to json file".into(), 10);
  let mut walker = JsonWalker::new(Box::new(reader), 0);
  loop {
    match walker.next_item() {
      Ok(t) => { println!("{:?}", t) }
      Err(_) => { break; }
    }
  }
}

mod stream_reader {
  use std::fs::File;
  use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader};
  use std::sync::mpsc::{Receiver, sync_channel, SyncSender};

  // read target file line by line asynchronously
  async fn read_line(reader: &mut BufReader<File>) -> Result<String, ()> {
    let mut buffer = String::new();
    return match reader.read_line(&mut buffer) {
      Ok(_) => { Ok(buffer) }
      _ => { Err(()) }
    };
  }

  pub struct StreamReader {
    buffer_slice: Vec<u8>,
    buffer_slice_len: usize,
    index: usize,
    consumer: Receiver<Vec<u8>>,
  }

  impl StreamReader {
    pub fn new(file_path: String, queue_size: usize) -> Self {
      // std::..::sync_channel makes a queue and that queue will be filled to the queue_size.
      // receiver will wait till there is some data ready to use, otherwise no blocking happens
      let (producer, consumer) = sync_channel(queue_size);
      StreamReader::start_thread(file_path, producer);
      StreamReader {
        buffer_slice: vec![],
        buffer_slice_len: 0,
        index: 0,
        consumer,
      }
    }

    // fill sender queue in this thread
    fn start_thread(file_path: String, producer: SyncSender<Vec<u8>>) {
      tokio::spawn(async move {
        let file = File::open(file_path.clone()).expect(&format!("file: {} does not exist", file_path));
        let mut reader = BufReader::new(file);
        loop {
          // read_line needs await mechanism
          match read_line(&mut reader).await {
            Ok(line) => {
              match producer.send(line.into_bytes()) {
                Err(_) => break, // maybe receiver is dismissed
                _ => {}
              }
            }
            Err(_) => {
              panic!("reading file failed");
            }
          };
        }
      });
    }
  }

  impl Iterator for StreamReader {
    type Item = u8;

    // provide bytes
    fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
      // if current piece of data is finished, catch another one
      if self.index == self.buffer_slice_len {
        match self.consumer.recv() {
          Ok(d) if d.len() > 0 => {
            self.buffer_slice = d;
            self.buffer_slice_len = self.buffer_slice.len();
            self.index = 0;
          }
          _ => { return None; }
        }
      }
      let i = self.index;
      self.index += 1;
      Some(self.buffer_slice[i])
    }
  }
}

• Other examples are provided in function docs and tests