JSON

These are the methods available for JSON handling. They are available through the cloud.encode and cloud.decode namespaces.

You can also access the raw JSON module using: cloud.json

Decode

.decode.json

Converts a JSON string to a Lua table.

Signature

cloud.decode.json( json_string )

Parameters

Name	Description	Default	Required
json_string	A JSON decodable string.	none	Y

Example

local result = cloud.decode.json('{"directive":"Table Me"}')

-- result = { directive = "Table Me" }

.encode.json

Converts a Lua table to a JSON string.

Signature

cloud.encode.json( lua_table )

Parameters

Name	Description	Default	Required
lua_table	A JSON encodable Lua table	none	Y

Returns

Usage

local result = cloud.encode.json({directive = "JSON Me"})

-- result = {"directive":"JSON Me"}

cloud.jtbl

A table extended with a :toJson method, which returns a JSON encoding of the table data, if possible.

Signature

cloud.jtbl()

Parameters

none

Usage

local tbl = cloud.jtbl()
tbl.username = "Jim"
local json = tbl:toJson()
-- `json` contains '{"username":"Jim"}'