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Iterate JSON where Member Names are Data Values

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Demonstrates how to parse JSON where member names are not keywords, but instead are data values. Zig

const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    const json = try chilkat.JsonObject.init();
    defer json.deinit();

    try json.loadFile("qa_data/json/valuesAsNames.json");

    // Imagine we have JSON such as the following:

    // {
    //   "1680": {
    //     "entity_id": "1680",
    //     "type_id": "simple",
    //     "sku": "123"
    //   },
    //   "1701": {
    //     "entity_id": "1701",
    //     "type_id": "simple",
    //     "sku": "456"
    //   }
    // }
    //

    // This presents a parsing problem because the member names, such as "1680"
    // are not keywords.  Instead they are data values.  We don't know what they
    // may be in advance.

    // To solve, we iterate over the members, get the name of each, ...
    const num_members = json.getSize();
    var i: i32 = 0;
    i = 0;
    while (i < num_members) : (i += 1) {
        const name = try json.nameAt(alloc, i);

        std.debug.print("{s}:\n", .{name});
        const j_record = try json.objectAt(i);
        defer j_record.deinit();

        std.debug.print("entity_id: {s}\n", .{try j_record.stringOf(alloc, "entity_id")});
        std.debug.print("type_id: {s}\n", .{try j_record.stringOf(alloc, "type_id")});
        std.debug.print("sku: {s}\n", .{try j_record.stringOf(alloc, "sku")});
    }
}