JValue

Most call entries made to JC will be logged. Heavy traffic, by default is disabled.
Not thread safe for multiple users (though harmless).

--- Lifetime management functionality.
Read this https://github.com/ryobg/JContainers/wiki/Lifetime-Management before using any of lifetime management functions

Retains and returns the object.

Releases the object and returns zero, so you can release and nullify with one line of code: object = JValue.release(object)

Just a union of retain-release calls. Releases @previousObject, retains and returns @newObject.

Releases all objects tagged with @tag.
Internally invokes JValue.release on each object same amount of times it has been retained.

Minimizes the time JC temporarily owns the object, returns the object.
By using this function you help JC to delete unused objects as soon as possible.
Has zero effect if the object is being retained or if another object contains/references it.

--- Mics. functionality

Returns shallow copy (won't copy child objects)

Returns deep copy

Tests whether given object identifier is not the null object.
Note that many other API functions already check that too.

Returns true if the object is map, array or formmap container

Returns true, if the container is empty

Returns amount of items in the container

Removes all items from the container

JSON serialization/deserialization:

Creates and returns a new container object containing contents of JSON file

Parses JSON files in a directory (non recursive) and returns JMap containing {filename, container-object} pairs.
Note: by default it does not filter files by extension and will try to parse everything

Creates a new container object using given JSON string-prototype

Writes the object into JSON file

Returns type of resolved value. 0 - no value, 1 - none, 2 - int, 3 - float, 4 - form, 5 - object, 6 - string

Path resolving:

Returns true, if it's possible to resolve given path, i.e. if it's possible to retrieve the value at the path.
For ex. JValue.hasPath(container, ".player.health") will test whether @container structure close to this one - {'player': {'health': health_value}}

Attempts to retrieve value at given path. If fails, returns @default value

Attempts to assign the value. If @createMissingKeys is False it may fail to assign - if no such path exist.
With 'createMissingKeys=true' it creates any missing path element: solveIntSetter(map, ".keyA.keyB", 10, true) on empty JMap creates {keyA: {keyB: 10}} structure

Evaluates piece of lua code. Lua support is experimental