/// Basic and really simplistic routine to fix malformatted .json files
/// It will replace the old version of your file on success and create a backup of the old one (called <filename>_backup.json)
/// Currently it fixes: double commata, missing " for non-numeric strings
int JSON_Fix(const char *filename)
{
string s;
copystring(s, filename);
const char *found = findfile(path(s), "");
char *buf = loadfile(found, NULL);
if(!buf) return -1;
JSON_Minify(buf);
size_t len = strlen(buf);
char *newbuf = new char[len + 1];
size_t pos = 0; //current position in the newbuf
for(size_t i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
if(buf[i] == ',')
{
if(!i) i++; //buf starts with a commata
else if(buf[i + 1] == ',') i++; //two subsequent commata
else
{
newbuf[pos] = buf[i];
pos++;
}
}
else if(isalpha(buf[i]))
{
if(!i) //todo worst case: is it an array or object?
return 0;
else if(buf[i - 1] != '\"') {
newbuf[pos] = '\"'; pos++;
} //string was missing a leading "
newbuf[pos] = buf[i];
pos++;
}
else
{
if(i && isalpha(i - 1)) {
newbuf[pos] = '\"'; pos++;
} //string was missing a trailing "
newbuf[pos] = buf[i];
pos++;
}
}
JSON *j = JSON_Parse(newbuf);
if(j)
{
conoutf("%s was malformatted but has been fixed automatically. \nThe original file has been overwritten, but backuped", found);
//cutextension .. getextension
defformatstring(backupname, "%s_backup", found);
if(!rename(found, backupname)) j->save(found);
delete j;
delete[] buf;
delete[] newbuf;
return 1;
}
delete[] buf;
delete[] newbuf;
return 0;
}
// Parses a JSON schedule into the global variable
// schedule and sorts it
void scheduleParse(char *json) {
JSON_Parse(json);
}
