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On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:41:10PM +0000, Wiles, Keith wrote:
> Would this work better in the long run, does a fixed structure still make sense?

This right here is why I suggested libjson-c as an example. It has a nice API 
like this already:

http://json-c.github.io/json-c/json-c-0.12/doc/html/json__object_8h.html

Matthew.