Preface

Here is a second part of wxJSON tutorial provided by Luciano Cattani, author and maintainer of wxJSON library.

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Creating a Configuration File with wxJSON

We start by using JSON for an application's configuration file. There are many formats for storing application's configuration data. I remember when there was MS-DOS: each application used its own, unreadable and proprietary format (it was a nightmare). Next came Windows 3: it had a better way for storing application's configuration data; they were kept in an .INI file which contains simple ASCII text. This was a good thing because it was easier for humans to fine-tuning application's behaviour. In this example we use JSON to store the configuration data of a simple web server application. If you take a look at the Apache config file you will notice that our example looks very similar (but much more human readable).