From ea1dbd253a69542a2cb5e85834622b73e262379d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Robson <danny@nerdcruft.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:53:43 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] j/tree: add from_path function for clarity

---
 json/tree.cpp | 15 +++++++++++++++
 json/tree.hpp |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/json/tree.cpp b/json/tree.cpp
index 49db2bec..bd6a7ca0 100644
--- a/json/tree.cpp
+++ b/json/tree.cpp
@@ -203,6 +203,21 @@ json::tree::parse (const char *first, const char *last)
 }
 
 
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+std::unique_ptr<json::tree::node>
+json::tree::from_path (const char *path)
+{
+    return json::tree::parse (boost::filesystem::path (path));
+}
+
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+std::unique_ptr<json::tree::node>
+json::tree::from_path (const std::string &path)
+{
+    return json::tree::from_path (path.c_str ());
+}
+
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // Type conversion
 
diff --git a/json/tree.hpp b/json/tree.hpp
index ab0030e6..9122a9ae 100644
--- a/json/tree.hpp
+++ b/json/tree.hpp
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ namespace json { namespace tree {
     extern std::unique_ptr<node> parse (const char *start, const char *stop);
     extern std::unique_ptr<node> parse (const std::string&);
 
+    extern std::unique_ptr<node> from_path (const char *path);
+    extern std::unique_ptr<node> from_path (const std::string&);
+
     extern void write (const json::tree::node&, std::ostream&);
 
     /// Abstract base for all JSON values