[New plugin] JSON escape/unescape plugin

Alexander Verbitsky

Just finished (kinda) my first Notepad++ plugin. It has just 3 functions:

Escape (no surprises)
Unescape (no surprises)
Recursive unescape

The first two are trivial, the second is interesting (at least for me because I have to work with large JSONs on daily basis). Recursive unescape scans JSON for string fields and tries to convert them to JSON objects. For example:

{"a": "{\"b\":\"{\\\"c\\\": \\\"value\\\"}\"}"} => {"a":{"b":{"c":"value"}}}

It is useful when you have to read some JSONs like

{
    "events": [
        {
            "event": "1",
            "data": "{\"a\":\"string\"}"
        },
        {
            "event": "2",
            "data": "{\"b\":\"string\", \"c\":42}"
        }
    ]
}

Recursive unescape transforms it to

{
    "events": [
        {
            "data": {
                "a": "string"
            },
            "event": "1"
        },
        {
            "data": {
                "b": "string",
                "c": 42
            },
            "event": "2"
        }
    ]
}

Source code: https://github.com/RolandTaverner/npp-json-escape-unescape-plugin
Hope it will be useful not for me only. Also I will be grateful for feedback.
PS Right now it supports UTF8 only, will fix it ASAP.

Victorel Petrovich

@Alexander-Verbitsky Congratulations!