Deserialization

Deserialization works by having your predefined struct type and then looking up those field names in the provided JSON. Therefore for this we will be using the following struct type:

struct Person
{
    public string firstname, lastname;
    public int age;
    public bool isMale;
    public JSONValue obj;
    public int[] list;
    public bool[] list2;
    public float[] list3;
    public double[] list4;
    public string[] list5;
    public EnumType animal;
}

Now, let's say we were given the following JSON:

{
    "firstname" : "Tristan",
    "lastname": "Kildaire",
    "age": 23,
    "obj" : {"bruh":1},
    "isMale": true,
    "list": [1,2,3],
    "list2": [true, false],
    "list3": [1.5, 1.4],
    "list4": [1.5, 1.4],
    "list5": ["baba", "booey"],
    "animal": "CAT"
}

We can then deserialize the JSON to our type Person, with the fromJSON method:

// Define our JSON
JSONValue json = parseJSON(`{
"firstname" : "Tristan",
"lastname": "Kildaire",
"age": 23,
"obj" : {"bruh":1},
"isMale": true,
"list": [1,2,3],
"list2": [true, false],
"list3": [1.5, 1.4],
"list4": [1.5, 1.4],
"list5": ["baba", "booey"],
"animal": "CAT"
}
`);

// Deserialize
Person person = fromJSON!(Person)(json);

And we can confirm this with:

writeln(person):

Which will output:

Person("Tristan", "Kildaire", 23, true, {"bruh":1}, [1, 2, 3], [true, false], [1.5, 1.4], [1.5, 1.4], ["baba", "booey"], CAT)