Read JSON

Read a file as JSON.

Usage

var readJSON = require( '@stdlib/fs/read-json' );

readJSON( file[, options], clbk )

Asynchronously reads a file as JSON.

var join = require( 'path' ).join;

readJSON( join( __dirname, 'package.json' ), onJSON );

function onJSON( error, data ) {
    if ( error ) {
        throw error;
    }
    console.dir( data );
}

The function accepts the following options:

encoding: file encoding.
flag: file status flag.
reviver: JSON transformation function.

The options parameter may also be a string specifying the file encoding.

var join = require( 'path' ).join;

readJSON( join( __dirname, 'package.json' ), 'utf8', onJSON );

function onJSON( error, data ) {
    if ( error ) {
        throw error;
    }
    console.dir( data );
}

readJSON.sync( file[, options] )

Synchronously reads a file as JSON.

var join = require( 'path' ).join;
var instanceOf = require( '@stdlib/assert/instance-of' );

var out = readJSON.sync( join( __dirname, 'package.json' ) );
if ( instanceOf( out, Error ) ) {
    throw out;
}
console.dir( out );

The function accepts the same options as readJSON() above.

Notes

If the encoding option is set to utf8 and the file has a UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM), the byte order mark is removed before attempting to parse as JSON.

Examples

var join = require( 'path' ).join;
var readJSON = require( '@stdlib/fs/read-json' );

var file = join( __dirname, 'package.json' );

// Synchronously read file contents...
var data = readJSON.sync( file, 'utf8' );
// returns <Object>

data = readJSON.sync( 'beepboop', {
    'encoding': 'utf8'
});
// returns <Error>

// Asynchronously read file contents...
readJSON( file, onJSON );
readJSON( 'beepboop', onJSON );

function onJSON( error, data ) {
    if ( error ) {
        if ( error.code === 'ENOENT' ) {
            console.error( 'JSON file does not exist.' );
        } else {
            throw error;
        }
    } else {
        console.log( 'Package description: %s', data.description );
    }
}