json_diff 0.1.0

Utilities for diffing two JSON objects

JSON Diff

Generate a diff between two JSON strings.

Usage

Here's a basic example which features a deleted object, a new object, and a changed object:

import 'package:json_diff/json_diff.dart';

Map<String,Object> left = '{"a": 2, "b": 3, "c": 5, "d": {"x": 4, "y": 8}}';
Map<String,Object> right = '{"b": 7, "c": 5, "d": {"x": 4, "z": 16}, "e": 11}';
differ = new JsonDiffer(left, right);
DiffNode diff = differ.diff();
diff.added              // => {"e": 11}
diff.removed            // => {"a": 2}
diff.changed            // => {"b": [3, 7]}
diff.node               // => a Map<String,DiffNode>
diff.node['a']          // => a DiffNode
diff.node['a'].added    // => {"z": 16}
diff.node['a'].removed  // => {"y": 8}

So that's pretty fun. So when you diff two JSON strings, you get back a DiffNode. A DiffNode is a heirarchical structure that vaguely mirrors the structure of the input JSON strings. In this example, the top-level DiffNode we got back has

• an added property, which is a Map of top-level properties that were not found in left, and were found in right.
• a removed property, which is a Map of top-level properties that were found in left, but were not found in right.
• a changed property, which is a Map of top-level properties whose values are different in left and in right. The values in this Map are two-element Arrays. The 0th element is the old value (from left), and the 1st element is the new value (from right).
• a node property, a Map of the properties found in both left and right that have deep differences. The values of this Map are more DiffNodes.

Contributing

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Disclaimer

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