Which Perl module would you recommend for JSON manipulation?

Question

As usual, I'm happy to deal with CPAN because it got all we need. As usual, I'm lost because there is plenty of stuff.

I can find the core JSON one by myself, and feel enthusiastic by a JSON::Tiny other.

My needs are very simple (parsing stuffs from the Open Library API) and, maybe someday, expose our own data.

Is there any other modules that you like for this task?

Answer 1

I would recommend JSON::MaybeXS - Uses Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP.

Cpanel::JSON::XS has improvements over JSON::XS, so JSON::MaybeXS makes your code nice and portable.

Usually I would look to Task::Kensho if I'm not sure of which module to use for a specific situation, though they don't have JSON at the moment, I've reported it to them!