NAME
     JSON::DWIW - JSON converter that Does What I Want

SYNOPSIS
     my $json_obj = JSON::DWIW->new
     my $data = $json_obj->from_json($json_str);
     my $str = $json_obj->to_json($data);

     my $data = JSON::DWIW->from_json($json_str);
     my $str = JSON:DWIW->to_json($data);
 
DESCRIPTION
    Other JSON modules require setting several parameters before calling the
    conversion methods to do what I want. This module does things by default
    that I think should be done when working with JSON in Perl. This module
    also encodes and decodes faster than JSON.pm or JSON::Syck.

    This means that any piece of data in Perl will get converted to
    something in JSON instead of throwing an exception. It also means that
    output will be strict JSON, while accepted input will be flexible,
    without having to set any options.

  Encoding
    Perl objects get encoded as their underlying data structure. For
    example, a blessed hash ref will be represented as an object in JSON, a
    blessed array will be represented as an array. etc. A reference to a
    scalar is dereferenced and represented as the scalar itself. Globs,
    filehandles, etc., get stringified.

  Decoding
    When decoding, null, true, and false become undef, 1, and 0,
    repectively.

METHODS
  my $json_str = to_json($data)
     Returns the JSON representation of $data (arbitrary
     datastructure).  See http://www.json.org/ for details

  my ($data, $error_msg) = from_json($json_str)
     Returns the Perl data structure for the given JSON string.  The
     value for true becomes 1, false becomes 0, and null gets
     converted to undef.

     Called in list context, this method returns a where the first
     element is the data and the second element is the error message,
     if any.  If $error_msg is defined, there was a problem parsing
     the JSON string, and $data will be undef.

BENCHMARKS
    Benchmark using a small amount of data:

        Encode (50000 iterations):
        ==========================
                      Rate       JSON JSON::Syck JSON::DWIW
        JSON        2820/s         --       -70%       -88%
        JSON::Syck  9328/s       231%         --       -60%
        JSON::DWIW 23474/s       732%       152%         --

        Decode (50000 iterations):
        ==========================
                      Rate       JSON JSON::Syck JSON::DWIW
        JSON        2168/s         --       -79%       -91%
        JSON::Syck 10504/s       384%         --       -55%
        JSON::DWIW 23364/s       978%       122%         --

DEPENDENCIES
    Perl 5.6 or later

AUTHOR
    Don Owens <don@regexguy.com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2007 Don Owens <don@regexguy.com>. All rights reserved.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
    WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
     JSON
     JSON::Syck (included in YAML::Syck)

VERSION
     0.01