* RapidJSON is **memory-friendly**. Each JSON value occupies exactly 16 bytes for most 32/64-bit machines (excluding text string). By default it uses a fast memory allocator, and the parser allocates memory compactly during parsing.
* RapidJSON is **Unicode-friendly**. It supports UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 (LE & BE), and their detection, validation and transcoding internally. For example, you can read a UTF-8 file and let RapidJSON transcode the JSON strings into UTF-16 in the DOM. It also supports surrogates and "\u0000" (null character).
More features can be read [here](doc/features.md).
JSON(JavaScript Object Notation) is a light-weight data exchange format. RapidJSON should be in full compliance with RFC7159/ECMA-404, with optional support of relaxed syntax. More information about JSON can be obtained at
Alternatively, if you are using the [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/) dependency manager you can download and install rapidjson with CMake integration in a single command:
* [simplereader](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/simplereader/simplereader.cpp): Dumps all SAX events while parsing a JSON by `Reader`.
* [condense](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/condense/condense.cpp): A command line tool to rewrite a JSON, with all whitespaces removed.
* [pretty](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/pretty/pretty.cpp): A command line tool to rewrite a JSON with indents and newlines by `PrettyWriter`.
* [capitalize](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/capitalize/capitalize.cpp): A command line tool to capitalize strings in JSON.
* [messagereader](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/messagereader/messagereader.cpp): Parse a JSON message with SAX API.
* [serialize](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/serialize/serialize.cpp): Serialize a C++ object into JSON with SAX API.
* [jsonx](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/jsonx/jsonx.cpp): Implements a `JsonxWriter` which stringify SAX events into [JSONx](https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9H2Y_7.1.0/com.ibm.dp.doc/json_jsonx.html) (a kind of XML) format. The example is a command line tool which converts input JSON into JSONx format.
* [schemavalidator](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/schemavalidator/schemavalidator.cpp) : A command line tool to validate a JSON with a JSON schema.
* [prettyauto](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/prettyauto/prettyauto.cpp): A modified version of [pretty](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/pretty/pretty.cpp) to automatically handle JSON with any UTF encodings.
* [parsebyparts](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/parsebyparts/parsebyparts.cpp): Implements an `AsyncDocumentParser` which can parse JSON in parts, using C++11 thread.
* [filterkey](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/filterkey/filterkey.cpp): A command line tool to remove all values with user-specified key.
* [filterkeydom](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/blob/master/example/filterkeydom/filterkeydom.cpp): Same tool as above, but it demonstrates how to use a generator to populate a `Document`.
## Contributing
RapidJSON welcomes contributions. When contributing, please follow the code below.
### Issues
Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests.
Please help us by providing **minimal reproducible examples**, because source code is easier to let other people understand what happens.
For crash problems on certain platforms, please bring stack dump content with the detail of the OS, compiler, etc.
Please try breakpoint debugging first, tell us what you found, see if we can start exploring based on more information been prepared.
### Workflow
In general, we follow the "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.
1.**Fork** the repo on GitHub
2.**Clone** the project to your own machine
3.**Checkout** a new branch on your fork, start developing on the branch
4.**Test** the change before commit, Make sure the changes pass all the tests, including `unittest` and `preftest`, please add test case for each new feature or bug-fix if needed.
5.**Commit** changes to your own branch
6.**Push** your work back up to your fork
7. Submit a **Pull request** so that we can review your changes
NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!
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