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Proposal: more abstracted SAX handler for lots of JSON manipulates

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start by reading the existing sonic-cpp SAX handler and lazysax behavior described in the issue, focusing on how parsing scope and JSON types are currently handled. Clarify the handler API and expected behavior for user-defined loading, skipping, and manipulation before identifying tests for those cases; done means the proposed operations work without requiring whole-document parsing.

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Description

good first issue proposal

SAX handler is necessary because it consumes less memory and has fast performance. especially based on SIMD skip. Now, sonic-cpp's handler is designed to parse the whole json, and lazysax is limited to only parsing the top level of json. There are many limits:

  1. not support load or skip according to the user-defined handler.
  2. can not check json type in sax.

We can add SkipOne(raw json), CheckOne(type) and other handler functions, to support lots of JSON manipulates, such as, merge json, cut json, and so on.

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