Extracting data values from OSRM's osrm::json::object using C++

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I can receive the JSON result successfully and printing it to the console (as per the online samples), but I am have problems extracting actual field data. How can I extract individual fields as numbers, string, etc?

I've tried various forms of casting, but this is what I have at the moment (trying to extract the status value):

const int gr_result_code = routing_machine.RunQuery(route_parameters, json_result);
std::string sStat("status");
auto it = json_result.values.find(sStat);
osrm::json::Number vv =  (osrm::json::Number) ((*it).second); // doesn't compile
int v = (int) (vv.value); // probably some dodgy rounding here

The Number casting is producing compiler errors. I guess I could convert the object to a string, and then using a third party JSON parser to extract individual fields, but this seems very wasteful.

Accepted Answer

With help from Daniel Hofman on the OSM listserver, I've managed to find the mapbox::util::get call, eg:

    std::string sStat("status");
    auto it = json_result.values.find(sStat);
    double v = mapbox::util::get<osrm::json::Number>( (it->second) ).value;

    SimpleLogger().Write() << " status: " << v;

(in this example, status only contains integer values, so it should also be rounded to an integer)

I think I need to read up on boost :-)

Extracting data values from OSRM's osrm::json::object using C++

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