NDJSON Reader/Writer for PHP

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A PHP library to read and write NDJSON (Newline Delimited JSON).

Read and write one line at a time to execute with low memory usage.

For better performance, you can also read and write on multiple lines.

Installation

composer require sunaoka/ndjson

Usage

Read

Example NDJSON

{"test": "001"}
{"test": "002"}
{"test": "003"}
{"test": "004"}
{"test": "005"}

Read one line at a time

use Sunaoka\Ndjson\NDJSON;

$ndjson = new NDJSON('/path/to/file.ndjson');

while ($json = $ndjson->readline()) {
    var_dump($json);
}

array(1) {
  ["test"]=>
  string(3) "001"
}
array(1) {
  ["test"]=>
  string(3) "002"
}
array(1) {
  ["test"]=>
  string(3) "003"
}
array(1) {
  ["test"]=>
  string(3) "004"
}
array(1) {
  ["test"]=>
  string(3) "005"
}

Read 3 lines at a time

use Sunaoka\Ndjson\NDJSON;

$ndjson = new NDJSON('/path/to/file.ndjson');

foreach ($ndjson->readlines(3) as $jsons) {
    var_dump($jsons);
}

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    ["test"]=>
    string(3) "001"
  }
  [1]=>
  array(1) {
    ["test"]=>
    string(3) "002"
  }
  [2]=>
  array(1) {
    ["test"]=>
    string(3) "003"
  }
}
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    ["test"]=>
    string(3) "004"
  }
  [1]=>
  array(1) {
    ["test"]=>
    string(3) "005"
  }
}

Write

Write one line at a time

use Sunaoka\Ndjson\NDJSON;

$ndjson = new NDJSON('/path/to/file.ndjson');
$ndjson->writeline(['test' => '001']);
$ndjson->writeline(['test' => '002']);

{"test": "001"}
{"test": "002"}

Write multiple lines at a time

use Sunaoka\Ndjson\NDJSON;

$ndjson = new NDJSON('/path/to/file.ndjson');
$ndjson->writelines([['test' => '001'], ['test' => '002']]);

{"test": "001"}
{"test": "002"}