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halaxa/json-machine
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Efficient, easy-to-use and fast JSON pull parser

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Very easy to use and memory efficient drop-in replacement for inefficient iteration of big JSON files or streams for PHP >=7.2. See [TL;DR](#tl-dr). No dependencies in production except optional `ext-json`. README in sync with the code

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NEW in version `1.2.0` - [Recursive iteration](#recursive)

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- [TL;DR](#tl-dr)
- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Parsing JSON documents](#parsing-json-documents)
    - [Parsing a document](#simple-document)
    - [Parsing a subtree](#parsing-a-subtree)
    - [Parsing nested values in arrays](#parsing-nested-values)
    - [Parsing a single scalar value](#getting-scalar-values)
    - [Parsing multiple subtrees](#parsing-multiple-subtrees)
    - [Recursive iteration](#recursive)
    - [What is JSON Pointer anyway?](#json-pointer)
- [Options](#options)
- [Parsing streaming responses from a JSON API](#parsing-json-stream-api-responses)
    - [GuzzleHttp](#guzzlehttp)
    - [Symfony HttpClient](#symfony-httpclient)
- [Tracking the progress](#tracking-parsing-progress)
- [Decoders](#decoders)
    - [Available decoders](#available-decoders)
- [Error handling](#error-handling)
    - [Catching malformed items](#malformed-items)
- [Parser efficiency](#on-parser-efficiency)
    - [Streams / files](#streams-files)
    - [In-memory JSON strings](#in-memory-json-strings)
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
    - ["I'm still getting Allowed memory size ... exhausted"](#step1)
    - ["That didn't help"](#step2)
    - ["I am still out of luck"](#step3)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Development](#development)
    - [Non containerized](#non-containerized)
    - [Containerized](#containerized)
- [Support](#support)
- [License](#license)

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TL;DR
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