PHP JSON Data Accessors

This library provides infrastructure for JSON documents processing.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or newer.
• Internationalization functions (ext-intl) - to compare Unicode strings.
• JSON extension (ext-json) - to encode and decode JSON documents.

Node Values

ValueInterface can be used to represent JSON document or it's part. There is a set of descendant interfaces that provide access to typed values:

• ScalarValueInterface
• ArrayValueInterface
• ObjectValueInterface

NodeValueInterface includes information about value's path in the document, so it can be used to represent values that really exist in some JSON document. Calculated values that have no paths should implement basic ValueInterface.

Node Value Factories

This type of objects is intended to create node values from some source. This library includes two implementations of node value factories:

• DecodedJson\NodeValueFactory creates node value from raw PHP values (produced by json_decode() function or created manually).
• EncodedJson\NodeValueFactory creates node value directly from encoded JSON string.

Example

<?php

use Remorhaz\JSON\Data\Value\DecodedJson;
use Remorhaz\JSON\Data\Value\EncodedJson;

// Both values represent same JSON document:
$value1 = EncodedJson\NodeValueFactory::create()->createValue('{"a":"b"}');
$value2 = DecodedJson\NodeValueFactory::create()->createValue((object) ['a' => 'b']);

Event Streams

JSON document can be represented as a stream of events. These events implement descendants of EventInterface. Such events can be emitted by any custom JSON parser, but this library also implements standard ValueWalker object that converts any NodeValueInterface to event stream.

Value walker is also able to use mutations to alter the events. There're no standard mutations, you must implement MutationInterface by yourself.

You can also use EventDecoder object to convert event stream back to NodeValueInterface.

Value exporters

Library includes a set of ValueExporterInterface implementations that allow to export ValueInterface to another representation:

• ValueEncoder converts value to JSON-encoded string.
• ValueDecoder converts value to raw PHP values.

Comparators

Library includes a set of ComparatorInterface implementations that provide a simple way to compare/sort JSON documents:

• EqualValueComparator checks for JSON documents equality. Note that objects with same properties in different order are considered equal.
• GreaterValueComparator compares JSON numbers and strings.
• ContainsValueComparator checks JSON documents either for equality or for containment. Containing object is allowed to have additional properties on any level of recursion.

License

This library is licensed under the MIT License. Please see LICENSE for more information.