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Docs : Add docs for jsonparser and jsonsaver
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Signed-off-by: Ujjwal Agarwal <ujjwalcoding012@gmail.com>
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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0

## Working

A UnmarshallJSON function on the spdx.Document2_2 struct is defined so that when the JSON is unmarshalled in it the function is called and we can implement the process in a custom way . Then a new map[string]interface{} is deifined which temporarily holds the unmarshalled json . The map is then parsed into the spdx.Document2_2 using functions defined for it’s different sections .

JSON → map[string]interface{} → spdx.Document2_2

## Some Key Points

- The packages have a property "hasFiles" defined in the schema which is an array of the SPDX Identifiers of the files of that pacakge . The parses first parses all the files into the Unpackaged files map of the document and then when it parses the packages , it removes the respective files from the unpackaged files map and places it inside the files map of that package .

- The snippets have a property "snippetFromFile" which has the SPDX identiifer of the file to which the snippet is related . Thus the snippets require the files to be parsed before them . Then the snippets are parsed one by one and inserted into the respective files using this property .


The json file loader in `package jsonloader` makes the following assumptions:


### Order of appearance of the properties
* The parser does not make any pre-assumptions based on the order in which the properties appear .


### Annotations
* The json spdx schema does not define the SPDX Identifier property for the annotation object . The parser assumes the spdx Identifier of the parent property of the currently being parsed annotation array to be the SPDX Identifer for all the annotation objects of that array.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0

## Working

The spdx document is converted to map[string]interface{} and then the entire map is converted to json using a single json Marshall function call . The saver uses a tempoarary storage to store all the files (Paackaged and Unpackaged) together in a single data structure in order to comply with the json schema defined by spdx .

spdx.Document2_2 → map[string]interface{} → JSON

## Some Key Points

- The packages have a property "hasFiles" defined in the schema which is an array of the SPDX Identifiers of the files of that pacakge . The saver iterates through the files of a package and inserted all the SPDX Identifiers of the files in the "hasFiles" array . In addition it adds the file to a temporary storage map to store all the files of the entire document at a single place .

- The files require the packages to be saved before them in order to ensure that the packaged files are added to the temporary storage before the files are saved .

- The snippets are saved after the files and a property "snippetFromFile" identifies the file of the snippets.

The json file loader in `package jsonsaver` makes the following assumptions:


### Order of appearance of the properties
* The saver does not make any pre-assumptions based on the order in which the properties are saved .


### Annotations
* The json spdx schema does not define the SPDX Identifier property for the annotation object . The saver inserts the annotation inside the element who spdx identifier mathches the annotation SPDX identifier .

### Indentation
* The jsonsaver uses the marshall indent function with "" as he prefix and "\t" as the indent character , passed as funtion parameters .
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later

package jsonsaver

import (
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later

package jsonsaver

import (
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