JSON Shader Program Description

Introduction

The JSON Shader Program Description (JSPD) is a JSON-based format for describing shader programs. It is designed to be a human-readable, machine-readable, and extensible format for describing shader programs. The JSPD is intended to be used as a common format for shader programs across multiple shader languages and shader compilers. The JSPD is designed to be used in conjunction with the Byte Engine Shader Language (BESL).

Specification

Every node in the JSPD is a JSON object with the same structure. The following is a list of the fields that can be present in a JSPD node:

• type: The type of the node. This field is required.

The root node of a JSPD looks like this:

{
	"root": { ... }
}

Samples

Vertex Shader

{
	"root": {
		"Vertex": {
			"only_under": ["Vertex:Stage"],
			"in_position": {
				"type": "in",
				"in_position": {
					"type": "member",
					"data_type": "vec3f",
				}
			},
			"main": {
				"type": "function",
				"return": "void",
			}
		}
	}
}```