Re: native json parsing

we do tap on one of these in flucoma, so if I do a fluid.dictionary it’ll be this that I use indeed. I just try to keep maintenance of codebase to minimum, and dependencies to null.

p

> On 8 Feb 2026, at 20:53, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Unless the usage is very basic, I think plain vanilla as a requirement does not make sense for this. There are numerous C and C++ libraries which handle the basics and should be leveraged instead of reading bytes with [file] or something similar. Best of all, many of these libraries are only 1-2 files, so making a light wrapper external with minimal requirements for compilation should not be huge issue IMO.
> 
>> On Feb 8, 2026, at 8:04 PM, hans w. koch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> hello pierre alexandre,
>> 
>> a while ago i made a parser for .kml files (xml files recorded by bycicle route trackers) for a friend to sonify her tours.
>> its plain vanilla and was a pita to make :-)
>> if thats interesting for you, i can send you a copy of the patch.
>> 
>> cheers
>> 
>> hans
>> 
>>> Am 08.02.2026 um 17:48 schrieb Pierre Alexandre Tremblay <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>>>> did you have a look at the purest_json library, does it help?
>>> I didn’t but I saw it was neither vanilla nor available for all CPUs, so that won’t be helpful in my case (except if I decide to tackle a fluid.dictionary external which i don’t want to if I can avoid it)
>>> 
>>> hence asking if there was a native version/hack. I’ll look at Alexandre’s abstraction, that might do the trick. The idea would be to be able to dump fluid* status (mlp for instance) in text, edit, then load them back. This has been seen as useful on other platforms, so I’m trying to find a way…
>>> 
>>>> BACH library for Pd.
>>> 
>>> now, that is a fun challenge ;) I was talking to both Daniele and Andrea about this in the last year… it would be a fantastic addition obviously but I don’t envy the person who will do that job
>>> 
>>> p
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 8 Feb 2026, at 17:38, João Pais <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> did you have a look at the purest_json library, does it help?
>>>>> Dear all
>>>>> 
>>>>> Apart the fact that flucoma releases (and nightles soon) are on deken (hurray!), I am slowly getting back in trying to add the last bit missing to our interface… but the lack of native dictionary style file/data structure is not helping us to keep the structured (json style) states of objects simply yet programmatically editable (like in max and supercollider)
>>>>> 
>>>>> here is an example of one of our user’s clever use of the text object despite its limits
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/way-of-modifying-state-of-fluid-robustscale-in-puredata/2717/16
>>>>> 
>>>>> now I know there are “pd structure” magicians on here, and maybe someone has had the idea to create a sort of hack to parse json files, or even general dictionaries of associative key-values?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ideally, I’d be able to access those in the C api… but a temp json file is also possible on the way, we do that with SuperCollider anyway.
>>>>> 
>>>>> any pointers (pun intended) welcome
>>>>> 
>>>>> p
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