[vtk-developers] Parsing and reading json files

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Just one reminder for RapidJson and long string:

https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/issues/996

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Andras Lasso <lasso at queensu.ca> wrote:
> Jsoncpp works and it’s already added in VTK, so it is a convenient choice.
> However, we’ve found that if you work with large documents then it is
> unbearably slow (not just parsing, but accessing data in memory). For large
> files, I would recommend RapidJSON instead.
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>
> Some advantages of RapidJSON:
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> -          Magnitudes faster, also, its API facilitates writing efficient
> application code (although this API is also a bit more complex than jsoncpp)
>
> -          CMake-ified
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> -          Header-only (no need to install DLLs, ...)
>
> -          More conform to json standard
>
> -          Library is much smaller (31k vs 243k)
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> Some more background:
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> https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/646
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>
> Andras
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> From: vtk-developers [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of
> Will Schroeder
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 9:09 AM
> To: vtk-developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
> Subject: [vtk-developers] Parsing and reading json files
>
>
>
> Background:
>
> I am working with a research team performing biological simulation (UConn
> fungal simulation). Their simulation code (NetLogo) has been instrumented to
> output JSON files for the purposes of visualization.
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> Advice needed:
>
> We need to read their data so I intend to write a VTK reader to parse these
> JSON files. It appears that "VTK/ThirdParty/jsoncpp" is the way to go,
> please correct me if I am wrong and/or offer an alternate approach.
>
>
>
> Best,
> W
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Mathieu