JSON Parser
Write a compliant JSON parser from scratch in modern C++ using only the standard library. You tokenise the input, build a recursive-descent parser for objects, arrays, strings, numbers, and literals, and represent the document tree with std::variant. A rigorous exercise in parsing and modern value types.
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What You'll Build
A JSON parsing library that reads text into an in-memory value tree you can query and serialise back out, handling nested objects, arrays, escaped strings, and numeric edge cases.
Learning Objectives
- Tokenise JSON text into a stream of typed tokens
- Represent any JSON value with std::variant and recursive types
- Build a recursive-descent parser for objects and arrays
- Store object members in a std::unordered_map or std::map
- Decode escape sequences and validate numeric literals
- Report parse errors with line and column context
- Serialise the value tree back to well-formed JSON text
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