json5_nodes

This Rust library parses JSON5 into JsonNode structures that contain the JSON value and the location of the data in the original string. This allows you to use JSON5 as a configuration format and refer back to the location of semantic errors in the original JSON5 as opposed to just reporting syntactic errors when reading the file.

Implementation

We use IndexHashMap instead of a plain HashMap because JavaScript mostly preserves the order of insertion into objects. This libraries JSON5 parser currently only allows string based keys, so the rules are simplified.

To Do

This library is a work in progress. The following are some things that still need to be done: