A lightweight C++ header-only wrapper around nlohmann/json that supports JSON files with comments.
- Supports single-line (
//) and multi-line (/* ... */) comments. - Strips comments safely without removing string content.
- Easy to use as a drop-in replacement for
nlohmann::json::parse.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "jdaughter.hpp"
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
if (argc < 2) {
std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <json_file>" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
std::string filename = argv[1];
auto j = jdaughter::parse_file(filename);
if (j.is_null()) {
std::cerr << "Error parsing JSON: Could not open file: " << filename << std::endl;
return 1;
}
for (const auto& user : j.at("users")) {
std::cout << "- ID: " << user.at("id").get<std::string>() << "\n";
std::cout << " Name: " << user.at("name").get<std::string>() << "\n";
std::cout << " Email: " << user.at("email").get<std::string>() << "\n";
std::cout << " Role: " << user.at("role").get<std::string>() << "\n\n";
}
return 0;
}