mochijson2 examples!
erlang, json
Solution
The mochijson2 API essentially consists of just two functions, which (if you've downloaded mochiweb) can be used directly from the Erlang shell as follows:
erl -pa path/to/mochiweb/ebin
...
1> mochijson2:decode(<<"[1,2,3]">>).
[1,2,3]
2> iolist_to_binary(mochijson2:encode([1,2,3])).
<<"[1,2,3]">>
There are some test cases at the bottom of mochiweb/src/mochijson2.erl that might also be helpful in understanding the mapping between JSON terms and Erlang terms.
Problem
I'm a two-week old infant with regards to Erlang and Mochiweb. Earlier I had a system running on PHP and soon I realised that it wasn't going to be able to handle the kind of load I was expecting. So I decided to switch the backend to a Mochiweb based server. Right now I need to know how to implement JSON with Mochiweb. I'm fully aware of the existense of mochijson2 library, but being a beginner, I can't get around to figuring out how to use it. Could someone point me to some place where I can find examples of using this library or any other json library in erlang?