json-parser

A cli tool for lexical and syntactical analysis. It parses json files.

PyPI package

Features

• Lexical analysis --> tokenize json input character by character.
• Parser --> Builds python objects fro tokens.
• CLI Interface --> Validating json files from cli.
• Error messages with line numbers
• include support for comments also. ('//' and '/* any content */')
• Uploaded on pypi PyPI package
• No runtime dependencies required.

Installation

pip install json-parser-cli

How to use

use json-parser command to validate json files.

json-parser <file_name.json>

Learnings

How compiler works

1. Lexer.py --> Convert text into tokens.
2. Parser --> Convert tokens to data using recursive descent parsing.

Json features supported

• Objects, Arrays.
• Strings, Numbers, Booleans.
• Null, nested structures, etc.
• comments,