Lua Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Insert JSON Object into another JSON Object

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Demonstrates how to insert one JSON object into another. Effectively, the JSON object must be copied into the other.. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Imagine we have two separate JSON objects.
local jsonA = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
jsonA:update_string("animal", "zebra")
jsonA:update_string("colors[0]", "white")
jsonA:update_string("colors[1]", "black")

jsonA.emit_compact = false
print(jsonA:emit())

-- jsonA contains:

-- {
--   "animal": "zebra",
--   "colors": [
--     "white",
--     "black"
--   ]
-- }

local jsonB = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
jsonB:update_string("type", "mammal")
jsonB:update_bool("carnivore", false)

jsonB.emit_compact = false
print(jsonB:emit())

-- jsonB contains:

-- {
--   "type": "mammal",
--   "carnivore": false
-- }

-- Let's say we want to insert jsonB into jsonA to get this:

-- {
--   "animal": "zebra",
--   "info" " {
--       "type": "mammal",
--       "carnivore": false
--     },
--   "colors": [
--     "white",
--     "black"
--   ]
-- }

jsonA:add_object_copy_at(1, "info", jsonB)

print(jsonA:emit())

-- The result is this:

-- {
--   "animal": "zebra",
--   "info": {
--     "type": "mammal",
--     "carnivore": false
--   },
--   "colors": [
--     "white",
--     "black"
--   ]
-- }