From d7ade802060d1fb322d7dc424b5bd1bb2053d2bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Lyubka <lsm@cesanta.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:46:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] More json examples

PUBLISHED_FROM=873ab3e2b5e1fcc2869cbf2577e43795677d4065
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 README.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ec3108b..0fca7f9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -103,14 +103,13 @@ int json_scanf_array_elem(const char *s, int len,
                           struct json_token *token);
 ```
 
-
-## `json_printf()`
-
 A helper function to scan an array item with given path and index.
 Fills `token` with the matched JSON token.
 Returns 0 if no array element found, otherwise non-0.
 
-The Frozen printing API is pluggable. Out of the box, Frozen provides a way
+## `json_printf()`
+
+Frozen printing API is pluggable. Out of the box, Frozen provides a way
 to print to a string buffer or to an opened file stream. It is easy to
 to tell Frozen to print to another destination, for example, to a socket, etc.
 Frozen does this by defining an "output context" descriptor which has
@@ -380,6 +379,36 @@ void *json_next_elem(const char *s, int len, void *handle, const char *path,
 
 ```
 
+# Examples
+
+## Print JSON configuration to a file
+
+```c
+json_fprintf("settings.json", "{ a: %d, b: %Q }", 123, "string_value");
+json_prettify_file("settings.json"); // Optional
+```
+
+## Read JSON configuration from a file
+
+```c
+struct my_config { int a; char *b; } c = { .a = 0, .b = NULL };
+char *content = json_fread("settings.json");
+json_scanf(content, strlen(content), "{a: %d, b: %Q}", &c.a, &c.b);
+```
+
+## Modify configuration setting in a JSON file
+
+```c
+const char *settings_file_name = "settings.json", *tmp_file_name = "tmp.json";
+char *content = json_fread(settings_file_name);
+FILE *fp = fopen(tmp_file_name, "w");
+struct json_out out = JSON_OUT_FILE(fp);
+json_setf(content, strlen(content), &out, ".b", "%Q", "new_string_value");
+fclose(fp);
+json_prettify_file(tmp_file_name);  // Optional
+rename(tmp_file_name, settings_file_name);
+```
+
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