Parsing JSON string with jsoncpp

Question

I'm trying to parse a JSON string encoded with PHP and sent over TCP to a C++ client.

My JSON strings are like this:

{"1":{"name":"MIKE","surname":"TAYLOR"},"2":{"name":"TOM","surname":"JERRY"}}

On the C++ client I'm using the jsoncpp libraries:

void decode()
{
    string text =     {"1":{"name":"MIKE","surname":"TAYLOR"},"2":{"name":"TOM","surname":"JERRY"}};
    Json::Value root;
    Json::Reader reader;
    bool parsingSuccessful = reader.parse( text, root );
    if ( !parsingSuccessful )
    {
        cout << "Error parsing the string" << endl;
    }
    const Json::Value mynames = root["name"];
    for ( int index = 0; index < mynames.size(); ++index )  
    {
        cout << mynames[index] << endl;
    }
}

The problem is that I'm not getting anything as output, not even the error about the parsing(if any). Could you possibly help me to understand what I'm doing wrong ?

Answer 1

You can also read from a stringstream:

std::stringstream sstr(stringJson);
Json::Value json;
sstr >> json;