Defold-CJSON

Defold-CJSON Native Extension for the Defold Game Engine

This extension allow you encode lua table to JSON and decode JSON to lua table in native part

Platforms

• iOS
• Android
• MacOS
• Windows

Setup

You can use the Defold-CJSON extension in your own project by adding this project as a Defold library dependency. Open your game.project file and in the dependencies field under project add:

https://github.com/Melsoft-Games/defold-cjson/archive/master.zip

Or point to the ZIP file of a specific release.

API

cjson.encode(lua_table)

return encoded lua table to json string

cjson.decode(valid_json)

return parsed lua_table

Note: json must be valid, or cjson will throw error. You can wrap it with pcall, or change extension and call cjson safe_decode from lua-cjson lib

Benchmark

rxlua - pure lua JSON encode/decode implementation

time in ms

Json:	4KB	971KB	1.8MB
defold decode	0	0.032	0.075
--	--	--	--
rxlua encode	0	0.0734	0.148
rxlua decode	0.0003	0.0308	0.051
--	--	--	--
cjson encode	0	0.0057	0.0122
cjson decode	0	0.0066	0.0117

License, Authors

MIT license This NE wrapped by Denis Smirnov

Original module: lua-cjson License

Issues and suggestions

If you have any issues, questions or suggestions please create an issue or contact me: [email protected]