All,
Is this an appropriate forum for asking questions about how to use
Noggit? The Github doesn't have any discussions available and filing an
"issue" to ask a question is kinda silly. I'm happy to be redirected to
the right place if this isn't appropriate.
I've been able to figure out most things in Noggit by reading the code,
but I have a new use-case where I expect that I'll have very large
values (base64-encoded binary) and I'd like to stream those rather than
calling parser.getString() and getting a potentially huge string coming
back. I'm streaming into a database so I never need the whole string in
one place at one time.
I was thinking something like this:
JSONParser p = ...;
int evt = p.nextEvent();
if(JSONParser.STRING == evt) {
// Start streaming
boolean eos = false;
while(!eos) {
char c = p.getChar();
if(c == '"') {
eos = true;
} else {
append to stream
}
}
}
But getChar() is not public. The only "documentation" I've really been
able to find for Noggit is this post from Yonic back in 2014:
http://yonik.com/noggit-json-parser/
It mostly says "Noggit is great!" and specifically mentions huge, long
strings but does not actually show any Java code to consume the JSON
data in any kind of streaming way.
The ObjectBuilder class is a great user of JSONParser, but it just
builds standard objects and would consume tons of memory in my case.
I know for sure that Solr consumes huge JSON documents and I'm assuming
that Noggit is being used in that situation, though I have not looked at
the code used to do that.
Any suggestions?
-chris
