Re: native json parsing

Maybe this is a good time to propose a *native* dictionary or dict-style functionality. Maybe it comes down to a special mode for [text] etc? There is a symbol name map in the rjlib but I'd also like something more flexible.

> On Feb 9, 2026, at 9:15 AM, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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