Function

Jsonfrom_string

since: 1.2

Declaration [src]

JsonNode*
json_from_string (
  const char* str,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Parses the given string and returns the corresponding JSON tree.

If the string is empty, this function will return NULL.

In case of parsing error, this function returns NULL and sets the error appropriately.

Available since: 1.2

Parameters

str

Type: const char*

A valid UTF-8 string containing JSON data.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the function if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: JsonNode

The root node of the JSON tree.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.