/**
\mainpage
\section _intro Introduction

<a HREF="http://www.json.org/">JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)</a>
 is a lightweight data-interchange format. 
It can represents integer, real number, string, an ordered sequence of value, and
a collection of name/value pairs.

QJson is a qt-based library that maps JSON data to QVariant objects.

JSON arrays will be mapped to QVariantList instances, while JSON's objects will
be mapped to QVariantMap.

\section _usage Usage
Converting JSON's data to QVariant instance is really simple:
\code
// create a JSonDriver instance
QJson::Parser parser;

bool ok;

// json is a QString containing the data to convert
QVariant result = parser.parse (json, &ok);
\endcode

Suppose you're going to convert this JSON data:
\verbatim
{
    "encoding" : "UTF-8",
    "plug-ins" : [
        "python",
        "c++",
        "ruby"
        ],
    "indent" : { "length" : 3, "use_space" : true }
}
\endverbatim

The following code would convert the JSON data and parse it:
\code
QJson::Parser parser;
bool ok;

QVariantMap result = parser.parse (json, &ok).toMap();
if (!ok) {
  qFatal("An error occured during parsing");
  exit (1);
}

qDebug() << "encoding:" << result["encoding"].toString();
qDebug() << "plugins:";

foreach (QVariant plugin, result["plug-ins"].toList()) {
  qDebug() << "\t-" << plugin.toString();
}

QVariantMap nestedMap = result["indent"].toMap();
qDebug() << "length:" << nestedMap["length"].toInt();
qDebug() << "use_space:" << nestedMap["use_space"].toBool();
\endcode
The output would be:
\verbatim
encoding: "UTF-8"
plugins:
  - "python"
  - "c++"
  - "ruby"
length: 3
use_space: true
\endverbatim

The QJson::QObjectHelper class permits to serialize QObject instances into JSON. QJson::QObjectHelper also allows to 
initialize a QObject using the values stored inside of a JSON object. 

\section _build Build instructions
QJson build system is based on cmake. Download QJson sources, extract them, move inside the sources directory and then:
\code
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
\endcode

\section _download Get the code
Actually QJson code is hosted on KDE subversion repository. You can download it using a svn client:
\code
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/libs/qjson 
\endcode

Otherwise you can download source tarballs <a HREF="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=244195">here</a>.

\author Flavio Castelli <flavio@castelli.name>
*/
