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Jay is a thin wrapper for json & simdjson, allowing the fastest available json decoder to be used in a transparent way.

Under the hood, Jay will pick simdjson if available and the json encoded string is up to 4GiB (4.294.967.295 bytes), otherwise it will fallback to PHP's JSON Core Extension.

Installation

To use Jay, simple run:

composer require flavioheleno/jay

Usage

This library usage is straightforward.

$jsonEncoded = '{"a":"b","c":true,"d":10}';

// before
$jsonDecoded = json_decode($jsonEncoded, true);

// after
$jsonDecoded = Jay\Json::fromString($jsonEncoded, true);

// before
$jsonEncoded = filge_get_contents('path/to/file.json');
$jsonDecoded = json_decode($jsonEncoded, true);

// after
$jsonDecoded = Jay\Json::fromFile('path/to/file.json', true);

API

/**
 * @param string $path      Name of the file to read
 * @param bool $associative When true, JSON objects will be returned as associative arrays; when
 *                          false, JSON objects will be returned as an instance of stdClass
 * @param int $depth        Maximum nesting depth of the structure being decoded. The value must
 *                          be greater than 0, and less than or equal to 2.147.483.647
 *
 * @return array|stdClass Returns the value encoded in json as an appropriate PHP type; unquoted
 *                        values true, false and null are returned as true, false and null
 *                        respectively
 *
 * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the json cannot be decoded or if the encoded data is
 *                                  deeper than the nesting limit
 */
Jay\Json::fromFile(string $path, bool $associative = false, int $depth = 512): array|stdClass;


/**
 * @param string|Stringable $contents The json string being decoded; this function only works
 *                                    with UTF-8 encoded strings
 * @param bool $associative           When true, JSON objects will be returned as associative
 *                                    arrays; when false, JSON objects will be returned as an
 *                                    instance of stdClass
 * @param int $depth                  Maximum nesting depth of the structure being decoded. The
 *                                    value must be greater than 0, and less than or equal to
 *                                    2.147.483.647
 *
 * @return array|stdClass Returns the value encoded in json as an appropriate PHP type; unquoted
 *                        values true, false and null are returned as true, false and null
 *                        respectively
 *
 * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the json cannot be decoded or if the encoded data is
 *                                  deeper than the nesting limit.
 */
Jay\Json::fromString(
  string|Stringable $contents,
  bool $associative = false,
  int $depth = 512
): array|stdClass;

License

This library is licensed under the MIT License.