JSON recomendations

johnfl68 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello:

I deal with a few different data API's, many of them are phasing out XML and pushing people to start using JSON.

There seem to be numerous JSON modules at CPAN (JSON::Syck, JSON::XS, etc.), what would you recommend for parsing JSON data into Perl?

Thanks!

John

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Re: JSON recomendations by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 29, 2013 at 06:49 UTC
JSON::XS worked well for me in the past, and has good performance and Unicode support. JSON uses JSON::XS if available, and otherwise falls back to a pure-perl JSON parser. So if deployment is an issue, chosing JSON might give you more flexibility than JSON::XS. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply]
Re: JSON recomendations by davido (Cardinal) on Mar 29, 2013 at 17:53 UTC
If your needs are fairly general, just use JSON, and have JSON::XS installed so that JSON can select it automatically. If you have more specific needs, then look at the niche solutions. Most of the other solutions exist to scratch an itch. JSON::Tiny, for example, was forked from Mojo::JSON to form a light-weight, pure-Perl, easily embedded / easily distributed alternative to the heavier JSON. Dave	[reply]
Re: JSON recomendations by Anonymous Monk on Mar 29, 2013 at 05:46 UTC
Does it matter? I don't think it does OTOH, look at the last release date and pick the youngest with the least amount of open bugs You can't go wrong with JSON/JSON::XS	[reply]