2021-11-30 14:51:24 +01:00

127 lines
5.4 KiB
Markdown

## coreJSON Library
This repository contains the coreJSON library, a parser that strictly enforces the ECMA-404 JSON standard and is suitable for low memory footprint embedded devices. The coreJSON library is distributed under the [MIT Open Source License](LICENSE).
This library has gone through code quality checks including verification that no function has a [GNU Complexity](https://www.gnu.org/software/complexity/manual/complexity.html) score over 8, and checks against deviations from mandatory rules in the [MISRA coding standard](https://www.misra.org.uk). Deviations from the MISRA C:2012 guidelines are documented under [MISRA Deviations](MISRA.md). This library has also undergone both static code analysis from [Coverity static analysis](https://scan.coverity.com/), and validation of memory safety through the [CBMC automated reasoning tool](https://www.cprover.org/cbmc/).
See memory requirements for this library [here](./docs/doxygen/include/size_table.md).
**coreJSON v3.0.0 [source code](https://github.com/FreeRTOS/coreJSON/tree/v3.0.0/source) is part of the [FreeRTOS 202012.00 LTS](https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-LTS/tree/202012.00-LTS) release.**
## Reference example
```c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "core_json.h"
int main()
{
// Variables used in this example.
JSONStatus_t result;
char buffer[] = "{\"foo\":\"abc\",\"bar\":{\"foo\":\"xyz\"}}";
size_t bufferLength = sizeof( buffer ) - 1;
char queryKey[] = "bar.foo";
size_t queryKeyLength = sizeof( queryKey ) - 1;
char * value;
size_t valueLength;
// Calling JSON_Validate() is not necessary if the document is guaranteed to be valid.
result = JSON_Validate( buffer, bufferLength );
if( result == JSONSuccess )
{
result = JSON_Search( buffer, bufferLength, queryKey, queryKeyLength,
&value, &valueLength );
}
if( result == JSONSuccess )
{
// The pointer "value" will point to a location in the "buffer".
char save = value[ valueLength ];
// After saving the character, set it to a null byte for printing.
value[ valueLength ] = '\0';
// "Found: bar.foo -> xyz" will be printed.
printf( "Found: %s -> %s\n", queryKey, value );
// Restore the original character.
value[ valueLength ] = save;
}
return 0;
}
```
A search may descend through nested objects when the `queryKey` contains matching key strings joined by a separator, `.`. In the example above, `bar` has the value `{"foo":"xyz"}`. Therefore, a search for query key `bar.foo` would output `xyz`.
## Building coreJSON
A compiler that supports **C90 or later** such as *gcc* is required to build the library.
Additionally, the library uses 2 header files introduced in ISO C99, `stdbool.h` and `stdint.h`. For compilers that do not provide this header file, the [source/include](source/include) directory contains [stdbool.readme](source/include/stdbool.readme) and [stdint.readme](source/include/stdint.readme), which can be renamed to `stdbool.h` and `stdint.h` respectively.
For instance, if the example above is copied to a file named `example.c`, *gcc* can be used like so:
```bash
gcc -I source/include example.c source/core_json.c -o example
./example
```
*gcc* can also produce an output file to be linked:
```bash
gcc -I source/include -c source/core_json.c
```
## Documentation
### Existing documentation
For pre-generated documentation, please see the documentation linked in the locations below:
| Location |
| :-: |
| [AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C](https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-embedded-C#releases-and-documentation) |
| [FreeRTOS.org](https://freertos.org/Documentation/api-ref/coreJSON/docs/doxygen/output/html/index.html) |
Note that the latest included version of the coreJSON library may differ across repositories.
### Generating documentation
The Doxygen references were created using Doxygen version 1.9.2. To generate the
Doxygen pages, please run the following command from the root of this repository:
```shell
doxygen docs/doxygen/config.doxyfile
```
## Building unit tests
### Checkout Unity Submodule
By default, the submodules in this repository are configured with `update=none` in [.gitmodules](.gitmodules), to avoid increasing clone time and disk space usage of other repositories (like [amazon-freertos](https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos) that submodules this repository).
To build unit tests, the submodule dependency of Unity is required. Use the following command to clone the submodule:
```
git submodule update --checkout --init --recursive test/unit-test/Unity
```
### Platform Prerequisites
- For running unit tests
- C90 compiler like gcc
- CMake 3.13.0 or later
- Ruby 2.0.0 or later is additionally required for the Unity test framework (that we use).
- For running the coverage target, gcov is additionally required.
### Steps to build Unit Tests
1. Go to the root directory of this repository. (Make sure that the **Unity** submodule is cloned as described [above](#checkout-unity-submodule).)
1. Create build directory: `mkdir build && cd build`
1. Run *cmake* while inside build directory: `cmake -S ../test`
1. Run this command to build the library and unit tests: `make all`
1. The generated test executables will be present in `build/bin/tests` folder.
1. Run `ctest` to execute all tests and view the test run summary.
## Contributing
See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on contributing.