magmalake json_mlake

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What it is

json_mlake is a packaged build of json by Ehsan M. Kermani: simdjson-backed JSON parsing for Mojo, with value types, reflection, JSONPath, schema validation and a GPU backend. magmalake republishes it only because json isn’t on a conda channel pixi can resolve, and flare_mlake and k8s need it. The code is upstream’s and the module is still imported as json. Star it and file issues upstream.

Install

pixi shelf add json_mlake      # no other tins; brings simdjson from conda-forge

Then from json import ... as upstream documents. The package build compiles the simdjson wrapper into the environment’s lib/, so you need no compiler of your own. The GPU parser (json.gpu) is opt-in: add max-core ==26.7 to your own dependencies, since that package is under the Modular Community License.

What magmalake changed

It tracks upstream v0.4.2. The one source delta:

  • The simdjson wrapper is found without CONDA_PREFIX (json/cpu/_dlopen.mojo): it looks in $CONDA_PREFIX/lib, then the executable’s directory and its ../lib, then the binary’s rpath, so a binary built under pixi runs from a plain shell. A missing wrapper raises an Error that says to set CONDA_PREFIX. Upstream’s fallback to build/libsimdjson_wrapper.so relative to the working directory is dropped.

And packaging:

  • The package is named json_mlake; the module stays json, so switching to an official package later is a one-line dependency change.
  • mojodoc is dropped from the dev feature, so the docs task isn’t available.
  • CI builds the package and consumes it from a clean project on linux-64 and osx-arm64, instead of running upstream’s test matrix; upstream’s docs and fuzz workflows are dropped.

The repository is archived the day json is on a channel pixi can resolve.

Upstream

The full reference is the README on GitHub.